It's true that Comcast has been aggressively boosting the speeds on its network, but it may only be a pretense for getting its customers to fork out even more money per month than they already do. The Washington Post's Timothy Lee takes a look at several charts showing both speed and pricing tiers for Comcast and concludes that the company is acting "more and more like a monopolist" because "while every tier of Comcast service is faster than it was a decade ago, the rate of progress has been dramatically higher for customers who pay the most."
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Comcast seen increasing speeds solely as a way to further gouge customers