content: What they're doing is introducing artificially low data caps so that they can bill streamers for using other services to "watch TV". I did a bit of research on this subject using Woflram Alpha. It's really easy to calculate how long you can use your service at its advertised speed before you hit the cap. For example: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=300GB+at+50mbps 13 hours 20 minutes.  That's how long you can use a 50mbps service before you hit their arbitrarily low datacap. Netflix uses about 3GB per hour in HD. That means you can watch just 100 hours in a whole month before you hit comcast's streamer-penalty cap. That's exactly why they're doing this. It has nothing to do with congestion, overages, or available bandwidth. They're trying to recoup lost revenue caused by cord cutting caused by how shitty cable is. edit: fixed my bad arithmetic. There's a reason I use Walpha.