I wonder if this will still have the 250 GB (or is it 350 GB, now?) cap on data transfer? Either way you could blow through the cap in less then 25 minutes.
Obviously true uncapped would be ideal but it strikes me as a decent compromise. And 8 hours of gigabit ever day gets you pretty far if the aim is to move data...
That reminds me of old times in Brazil. Phone calls where charged for a single pulse from midnight to 6am or 8am (can't remember). Dial-up was the only option available and we'd all go online between those times, usually sneaking to the computer so our parents wouldn't see us, because we had class the next day :)
http://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/data-u...
That said, I remember hearing somewhere that they were waiting for the TWC merger to be resolved before moving ahead. Not sure how true that is.
https://i.imgur.com/oOEQMTt.png
It does say "Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended" on the page.
What I'd love to see in California is AT&T roll out G.Fast in all the U-Verse neighborhoods (It's already in a lot of places). A single DSLAM (over whatever they put in those little huts), can cover about 750 homes within 500m, and that gives you a 100 mbits/sec on a single pair of copper.