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[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

I’ve somewhat recently moved back to a very rural area of the Midwest. Small town. No stop lights. Biggest businesses other than the bars are Casey’s, Subway, and Dollar General.

And we have one ISP (not counting DSL) — Mediacom. When we first signed up, I had to go with the second service tier. But not because of speeds, but so I could have a reasonable 1 TB/mo data cap.

Lucky me, they increased the cap to 1.5 TB. 🙄

I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USAGE ALLOWANCE?!?!

Laughs in Scandinavian

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have luckily never heard about data caps in Scandinavia except for mobile broadband.

Do they even exist at all, here?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had a friend years ago that had a cap, but that was literally the only one I've heard of in my life here (Sweden)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know, probably not. I don't even know how fast I'd blow through 1,5 Tb!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My first (fast) internet connection was 1 Mbit.

We had 1gb to download per month. This cap disappeared when more competitors showed up though (i had that cap around ... 2001)

I havnt seen a data cap for internet connections since. I am not aware of any either. Except for mobile phones. Though, they also have unlimited data for those , if you want. (I have. Just so i never have to worry about it ever again)