Thanks to an agreement with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, telecommunications will only apply the new limit in July, which means that if you are a Comcast customer in one of the relevant markets, you will not incur too much on your account do not see monthly account until August. It has also agreed to waive early termination fees until 31 December 2021 for customers who signed a contract before November 2020.
For customers considering their data allocation, telecommunications planned to charge them $ 10 for each additional 50 GB they exceeded, up to a maximum of $ 100. To prevent any overrun, customers would receive a had to sign up for an unlimited plan of $ 30 per month or $ 25 monthly xFi full package. During the saga, Comcast maintained that 95 percent of its customers use far less than 1.2 TB each month. Because so many people are currently dependent on work from school to the internet, the planned timing of the increase has hit people wrong.
“As Pennsylvanias continue to navigate this pandemic, we know millions more than ever are relying on the Internet for school and work,” Shapiro said. “This is not the time to change the rules regarding the use of internet data and increase costs.”
The announcement comes one day after Comcast said it was doubling the speed of its low-income Internet Essentials package. The service supports the download speed of up to 50 Mbps from 1 March. Comcast also increased the speed at the urging of Shapiro.