New York - Comcast (NASD: CMCSA), the nation's largest cable TV provider and second-largest broadband ISP, announced this week that it will set a 250GB per month bandwidth cap for its high-speed Internet subscribers, and suspend the accounts of second-time offenders for an entire year. The company noted that most residential subscribers consume an average of about 2 or 3GB of bandwidth per month, and that a subscriber could download four standard-definition movies a day and not hit the limit.

"We've listened to feedback from our customers who asked that we provide a specific threshold for data usage and this would help them understand the amount of usage that would qualify as excessive," the company said.

The new bandwidth cap will go into effect for Comcast subscribers on Oct. 1.

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