For the most part, home-Internet providers have avoided imposing data caps on their customers, leaving it to wireless carriers to restrict how much Internet you can use on devices like smartphones. But now that's about to change in a major way: Beginning Nov. 1, Comcast is automatically applying a 1-terabyte data cap to residential broadband customers in nearly a dozen new states and parts of several other markets as well. [Here's how data caps really affect your Internet use]You can opt out of the data cap in several ways. You may have noticed that the data cap rollout affects primarily Comcast's western and central U.S. footprint. Comcast has no plans to introduce data caps to the northeast, Douglas said.

Source: Washington Post October 07, 2016 16:17 UTC