Comcast to Overturn FCC Order, and Lies About It's Bandwith Limitations

Comcast has filed suit in federal court, claiming that the FCC has no authority to require network neutrality.

Interestingly enough, one of their claims is that they had to institute their new hard bandwidth limitations because of the FCC ruling, which as Harold Feld notes, is another bald faced lie from them.

It turns out that the new 250 GB/month limit is as a result of a consent decree with the Florida Attorney General, who had taken action because Comcast was kicking off heavy users in an arbitrary and capricious manner.

As stipulated in the decree:

Comcast simply knocked off the highest 1000 users regardless of their actual bandwidth usage or geographic location.

While the top 1000 users out of 14.m million will doubtless be very high bandwidth users, the bell curve being what it is, this is a policy that is a complete mind f%$#.

Comcast is so evil that they make Verizon look nice.