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Comcast has secretly extended its usage cap on customer data to maximum of 300 GB secretly. The company says that this move is in compliance with its policies. This new policy will be effective from December 1^st. However, many consumers do not believe in Comcast's claims of flexibility and fairness in bringing this move. They in fact see it as a way to extract money from its customers. The cable company this week revealed that the cap will be applicable from Arkansas to Virginia and up to 300 GB. If consumers need more data, they will have to pay $10 for every 50 GB that they use exceeding the limit of 300 GB. These new caps will be enforced in areas like AK, Little Rock, Houma and La Place, Johnson City, LA, Greenville, Galax, Chattanooga and Shreveport, reports The Times Gazette.

According to the company spokesperson, the pricing will impact only a handful of customers. However, it will irk the consumers who will be required to pay $30 for unlimited usage or extra $10 for every 50 GB data they consume. Comcast says that they are testing the new plan as a trial but is apparently expanding to more and more areas, as reported by The Verge.

The reason given by Comcast for this change is very interesting. It says that the cap has been initiated for fairness and flexibility, rather than regulation of the network as has been encouraged by many mobile phone carriers. Many companies have put the data caps on their servers so that they can prevent overload. Microsoft is a company that promises unlimited storage on its One Drive service. But anytime tried to store more data, they were reminded of the 1TB limit, says the Times Gazette.