Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims

Interesting, I never once made that distinction, always assumed it meant 10gbps. Was this actually confusing people or just companies fighting in court?

I’ve wondered if what we need in society are nonprofits that advocate exclusively against certain evil and nefarious corporations. Imagine what an org could do with a few million and a mission to combat Comcast and expose their behavior. One organization whose mission is to expose Amazon’s bad behavior. A PR check on monopolies.

Consumer Affairs, etc. do good work, but we need a more 1:1 relationship.

I didn't realize they were actually selling a 10 Gbps service tier as part of this branding. It's never been available in my market, so I assumed that they were advertising the uplink capability of the thing my modem was connected to! Happy to see this go, but I'm still shocked to learn that the name was _less_ misleading than I had thought.

I thought it was pretty well understood, to anybody paying attention at least, that there have been no official 6, 7, 8, or even 9G mobile networks yet, so of course 10G was a slightly quicker name for 10Gbps networking. It's maybe not an industry standard, but colloquially many datacenters will call a 10Gbps-capable network switch a "10G switch." This seems like an extension of that colloquialism to general consumers. But I guess I won't argue, necessarily, about being less vague in our choices of words for things. I just generally don't think accusations of "misleading" is completely fair, in this instance. Comcast has been misleading customers in other ways, but in this case, I think individual ignorance is doing a bit of the heavy lifting for the misleading here.