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Cox Slams DSL in New Ads, But Cox Cable Customers Stuck With Usage Caps

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Cox Cable has slammed its phone company competition in a series of new TV commercials that call out antiquated and slow DSL. But customers switching to Cox have to endure that company’s unjustified Internet Overcharging schemes.  Cox arbitrarily limits your Internet usage in an effort to maximize profits and reduce costs.  Watching the online video Cox advertises could put you perilously close to your monthly allowance. Exceed it once too often and you may find your account shut off.

Cox executives promise they’ll listen to customers and what they want. Stop the Cap! urges you to participate in our pushback against Cox usage caps. Tell the cable company it does no good selling their broadband service for online video when the company threatens to shut it down if you watch “too much.”  (2 minutes)

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12 years ago

Not only is watching too much streaming video going to exceed your usage cap, but WINDOWS UPDATE PLOWS THROUGH YOUR USAGE CAP! One night I had 10 updates to my Windows 7 OS and when I checked the usage, we plowed though 29GB in one night when we had to download the updates! Yeah, that first Cox commercial is just plain BS, watch too much NetFlix, you bust your cap rendering your internet TV useless. Where are the TV manufacturers? Why aren’t they fighting the usage limits like we are? Maybe they will when they lose the profits from the… Read more »

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