Colonel_Mayhem

I don't intend to speak for anyone, as we each have our reasons and understandings, but I will express why this matters for at least one person, me.

There is one solution for broadband internet in my neighborhood, Comcast. I have an HD webcam setup at my grandparents' home to watch my grandmother with Alzheimer's. That camera streams to my household for hours each day in an effort to ease the burden on my grandfather. He watches over her instead of assisted living and various members of my family watch the cam throughout the day. In addition to this, this house streams everything. That includes Steam, Origin, Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, TED conference talks, occasionally NBC Nightly News, The Daily Show, random Youtube videos, and of course, Giant Bomb's own Quick Looks and TNTs. Furthermore, I upload RAW format images to my friends in S.Korea for use in their restaurants.

Before I knew a cap even existed, I let the camera stream for the majority of the day. Comcast cut my internet off after 3 consecutive months of averaging 1 Terabyte. I explained my situation and they restored me, but now I have to watch my usage like a hawk, yet I still average 100GB over their limit and really hope they don't oust me; as I will have zero broadband solutions until ATT reaches my address. With their limit, I don't see what good it would do. Comcast does not offer a solution for users like myself, all residential tiers are capped. I pay $62.95/month for 15/3, more if I didn't own my own modem.

Again, I don't intend to persuade anyone to do anything, but I hope some will recognize that there is a group, whether it's a minority or majority, that exists like me. As innovation becomes the industry of America, and manufacturing moves entirely overseas, the internet will be one of our greatest tools to succeed.

@Veektarius said:

It's recently been made an issue in the news how there is a limited 'spectrum' of airwaves that phone carriers are allowed to use, which are becoming more full as people try to download more stuff through them. In fact, a recent attempt by Verizon to expand the spectrum available to it may not be allowed because it puts too much advantage in the hands of the current leading provider. So, given that the resource used to provide high speed data transfer is limited, why shouldn't cell phone companies' pricing policies take this into account?

I hear ya. That's a slightly different situation with the wireless spectrum wars than what the petition is about, broadband internet access to the home. I will admit, though, the waters of information are very muddy thanks to these companies; making it perhaps unclear what to believe in either of these matters. Here's today's feature post on dslreports.com about what you've mentioned - CNN Fans The 'Spectrum Crisis' Flames

As reported today by Stop The Cap,

EA support confirmed to some battlefield forum members that some, maybe a bunch, of DVD copies come with a code that signals that you purchased the digital version and so it will download the entire 11-12GB game instead of installing off the DVDs. Sad, but true. You can contact support and they will issue you a hard copy code that should work with your DVDs.

It'll be too funny if that requires you to launch steam, select play title, it then auto launches origin which would require you to click play title again, followed by launching your browser for battlelog/battlefield facebook, followed again by launching the actual game. As much as I love Battlefield, I really feel like Rube Goldberg was project manager on this thing.