To tame your hunger for nonstop streaming and Netflix binges, several businesses are visiting or analyzing broadband information limitations–also called “use-based pricing”–that restrict the number of streaming you can do without needing to pay additional. Comcast is the biggest firm using these limits, plus its evaluations recently enlarged to many big cities, and 10 states, including Atlanta, Miami, and Nashville. On its site, the organization says that in the event you use more than the 300GB need to keep on streaming and allotted, youare going to need to buy added 50GB blocks at $10 each. The business also has an “infinite” data alternative in certain marketplaces that costs an additional $30 to $35 each month.

There is one important exception to all those limitations: We believe you will hear a lot more about this practice, called “zero standing,” during the the next couple of months. It is pretty common among cell phone carriers: T Mobile’s Binge On and the Go90 mobile video services of Verizon are both exempt from those carriers’ information limitations.

Like a great deal for consumers, zero standing might seem in the beginning –after all, and never needing to cover the additional information you use, you can see films. Zero standing is not prohibited by the Open Internet rules of the FCC, but it appears to dance close to the line. While the practice is not expressly prohibited, the FCC has said it’ll assess such company practices on a case by case basis.