Comcast Extending 1.2 TB Data Plan Nationwide

Starting Jan. 1, Comcast will extend its 1.2 TB monthly plan, currently in the western and central U.S., across the rest of its footprint, it told us Monday. Customers who exceed that won't be throttled or capped but can either pay overage charges of $10 for 50 GB buckets of data, at a maximum of $100 per month, or subscribe to an unlimited option of $30 a month additional for customers with their own modems, or $11 a month when bundled with lease of a Comcast modem for $14 monthly. Comcast said any January and February overage charges will be credited on customers' bills, and subscribers will get a courtesy overage month for the year. It said the purpose is to put more of the network costs on the shoulders of the heaviest data users: 5% of its users account for 20% of network usage, and median residential data usage is 308 GB.