Cable ONE broadband customers will soon benefit from the cable operator’s increased investment in its operations with faster broadband speeds and a less complicated “usage guideline” system with no overlimit fees.
The cable operator, owned by The Washington Post, has announced effective June 10, customers will be able to buy 5-70Mbps packages with allowances up to 500GB a month.
Cable ONE now only sells two broadband tiers:
- 5Mbps/512kbps (3GB daily limit to avoid speed throttle) No overlimit fees ($50/month)
- 50/2Mbps – 50-100GB monthly usage limit depending on how many Cable ONE services you receive ($50/month, $0.50/GB overlimit fee)
Starting Monday, the monthly usage allowance for the 50Mbps plan will be increased to 300GB per month and no overlimit fee will be charged. The price will remain $50 a month. Other new tiers include:
- 60/2Mbps – 400GB usage limit ($75/month)
- 70/2Mbps – 500GB usage limit ($100/month)
Customers will also lose the “grace period” between 12am-8am when usage was formerly not counted against the monthly allowance. Effective June 10, all usage counts 24 hours a day.
“We are very excited to launch these new, more flexible Internet plans. Our customers are spending more time online than ever before and have voiced the need for faster service and no overage charges,” said Joe Felbab, Cable ONE vice president of marketing. “We’re committed to listening to our customers and delivering the latest products and technical advancements while maintaining the highest level of reliability and customer care.”
Customers who exceed their monthly cap will not pay overlimit fees but will receive warnings from Cable ONE. If those warnings are ignored, the company will “invite” customers to upgrade to the next higher tier or convert to a business account.
They’re very excited to launch this new, more flexible 70Mbps Internet plan that allows customers to use their connections at max. rated speed for almost 2.19% of the month! *
* Please ignore the rescission of off-peak usage (33.3% of a given month) being exempt from usage caps, as you really should be in bed by then anyway.
One has to admit this is a step in the right direction. It seems that Stop The Cap! may be making progress toward eliminating over limit fees. Keep up the good work Phillip!
I don’t even think an upload of 2Mbps can even sustain a download of 50Mbps or 70Mbps.
It can do so just fine. TCP overhead isn’t that crazy; 50/1 ratios work absolutely fine in most cases, albeit with anemic upload speeds.
You can whine about low upload speeds, and I’ll agree with you there, but to say that you can’t get full download speeds due to low upload speeds is a fallacy. The ratio would have to be in the neighborhood of 200 to 1 to see that issue.
I see, well I guess I can be glad to have Time Warner Cable Extreme 30/5Mbps. Seems Time Warner Cable is more generous with the upload than Cable One but they are still considered paltry to the likes of Comcast with 10Mbps upload+. I’m happy with my internet, so I’m not complaining. Anyways its good to see Cable One stop selling cable internet like a freaking’ cell phone plan.
It probably goes without saying but any customers “upgrading” to these newer plans from their old, uncapped 5mbps plans will NOT be able to “downgrade” back to the uncapped plans. You’re grandfathered in unless you switch. This is what I was told when I switched.
The daily cap still irks me. That’s, what, 2 movies on Netflix? 3-4 tv shows on Hulu? Does anyone know what it gets throttled to?