Comcast admits that data caps don’t actually serve a technical purpose

What’s the point of offering super fast Internet speeds if your monthly data cap is so low that you could technically hit it in a matter of hours? That’s what one curious Twitter user asked Jason Livingood, the Vice President of Internet Services at Comcast, earlier this week. His answer? While he’s not certain of the actual reason, he knows that it’s definitely not for technical reasons, which more or less confirms what we already knew: it’s to make money.