(credit: Getty Images | Jonathan Nackstrand)
CenturyLink next week will begin charging data overage fees very similar to the ones that Comcast has implemented.
Like Comcast, CenturyLink is charging the fees in part of its territory as a “trial” designed to gauge customer response before a wider rollout. The fees are also $10 for every 50GB of additional data, the same as Comcast.
While Comcast is limiting monthly overage charges to $200, CenturyLink’s overage fees will not exceed $50 per month. But CenturyLink hasn’t announced any option for residential customers to purchase unlimited data, and even paying the overage fees doesn’t guarantee that customers can use the Internet as much as they like. Customers who don’t reduce their usage or switch to a pricier package that allows more data usage could be disconnected entirely, CenturyLink says.
Read 10 remaining paragraphs | Comments
Source: Ars Technica – CenturyLink charges data overage fees, may disconnect “excessive” users