If you live in one of the last states where Comcast has not yet rolled out its data caps, you’ll get another postponement: the company has announced that it’s pushing the implementation back to 2022 for now (via Ars Technica). The 1.2TB data packs, which are extra costly when users go over them, were originally scheduled to start in March but were then delayed until July. Comcast did not say specifically when the rollout will take place next year.
These caps will be known if you do not live in the Northeast region of Comcast, which consists of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia and the district. of Columbia, (along with parts of North Carolina and Ohio). Most of Comcast’s customers have been handling them for years, and that will not change. Even though the new implementation has been delayed, Comcast said Ars Technica that its customers in 27 other states will not get a breather from the limit and excess fee.
According to the announcement, the ISP argues for the delay that the company realizes that the “data plan was new for [its] customers in the Northeast, ”and it wanted to provide[e] give them more time to get acquainted with the new plan. This is not a license that the company extended to other states when it extended the data caps to them (apart from the one or two ‘free’ ages). But to be honest, there was also no global pandemic going on during the implementation.
However, it seems obvious that Comcast does not need to implement data cards to provide service – otherwise it would not be able to slow down the roll – out, nor would it be able to keep the region’s data cap free for years. It is unclear whether the company will use the extra delay to reconsider its planned implementation, despite the plan’s lack of popularity with both customers and lawmakers.