Data caps are literally a scam. Most ISPs throttle your speeds anyways so your never reaching their "gigabyte speeds", but also throw in a data cap to get extra money out of you. It's not like their going to run out of bandwidth or anything...
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Why even go through this crap? They already know that data caps provide no advantage to the customer so why would any sane person defend them? They are just providing room for fake responses.
They are required to go through a certain policy making process as required by Congress. This is true of regulations in general. If they don't follow it correctly and then institute a policy, the industry can sue. It is better and faster to just get it right the first time.
So are they going to request comments from citizens, come to the conclusion that everyone loves data caps, and then later have it be revealed that most of the responses were fake?
Oh they'll still mostly be fake, but with the current FCC admin I don't expect the same level of fuckery like we saw with ahshítpie
He is a corpo traitor and all around scumbag, may he burn in hell like a tire fire.
If there's any justice in the universe he absolutely will
Good! Fucking thieves took hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money to roll out nationwide fiber and pretty much did fuck all instead. Nice to see the FCC actually get off its ass and do something other than fellating corporations.
FCC: "So how much do you hate data ca-"
Users everywhere: "YES"
We where going to say capacity acctualy, so we are going to leave the caps in place for now and just see what happens ... blah blah free market
Can't believe you have datacaps on fiber still. For a long time no company has dared. They fiddle with bandwidth but in theory you could use you bandwidth for the 30days and that is the cap
I live in an area with only 2 ISPs to choose from: AT&T or Comcast, and they both have data caps. The FCC has a publicly available Data Cap Experience Form on their site basically all you do is write a paragraph summarizing your experience with data caps.
If anyone wants help, fill out the form and let the FCC know much you hate data caps.
Look at you, mister fancy pants with your choice between TWO crappy ISPs. While us over here have one choice for a crappy ISP.
You have an ISP, for the longest time the ISP in my area refused to go to my house because we were less than a mile from city limits, and less than 5 from another city
Btw this is not a thing where I live, no one here would pay for a plan with a data cap.
From the form:
and any other information that describes the benefits or challenges that you have experienced due to data caps
There's no way anybody could POSSIBLY benefit from being artificially limited for no reason. Why even include that?
Companies benefit from being able to hobble their customer's experience.