Got this from Comcast in response to an e-mail to the FTC. I assume it is canned, but interesting nevertheless:<\/p>\n
Contrary to the allegations raised in this complaint, Comcast does not apply \u201carbitrary\u201d usage thresholds, does not \u201czero-rate\u201d or grant special policy exemptions to its own video content, and does not implement policies intended to disadvantage online video distributors or \u201cdiscourage\u201d broadband Internet use.\u00a0 In fact, effective June 1, 2016, all of the data usage thresholds in the markets where we are trialing data usage plans will be increased from 300 GB to 1 TB.\u00a0 More than 99 percent of Xfinity Internet customers do not come close to using a terabyte each month, and our typical customer uses only 60 GB or 6 percent of 1 TB per month.\u00a0 Those few customers who wish to use more than 1 TB per month can sign up for an unlimited plan for an additional $50 per month, or they can purchase additional buckets of 50 GB for $10 each.\u00a0 This pro-consumer policy helps to ensure that Comcast\u2019s customers are treated fairly, such that those customers who choose to use more Internet data can pay more to do so, and those customers who choose to use less, pay less.<\/p>\n
Further, Comcast does not \u201cexempt\u201d any video services covered by the Open Internet rules \u2013 whether its own or others \u2013 from its data usage plan trials.\u00a0 Any Comcast-affiliated video services that are delivered over the Internet \u2013 like TV Everywhere content available via Xfinity.com or content available on nbc.com or the NBC app \u2013 are treated just like any other Internet-delivered services \u2013 such as Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon \u2013 and the use of the Internet to access those services is subject to any data usage thresholds that might apply.\u00a0 Services that are not delivered over the Internet, such as Comcast\u2019s cable and telephony services, are subject to and comply with their own regulatory obligations pursuant to the Communications Act and the FCC\u2019s rules.\u00a0 All of our cable services comply with the provisions of Title VI of the Communications Act and the Commission\u2019s rules governing cable services \u2013 including obligations to support closed captioning, emergency alerts, PEG channels, must-carry broadcast, etc. \u2013 that do not generally apply to video services delivered over the Internet.<\/p>\n
Finally, Comcast is one of the strongest proponents of the open Internet, and one of our principal corporate missions is to promote and expand the adoption of broadband Internet.\u00a0 In this endeavor, no broadband provider has done more than Comcast to close the digital divide and encourage household Internet use.\u00a0 We want people to use our Internet service, and our recent increase of our data usage plan trials to 1 terabyte makes that abundantly clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n