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by studentrob 1203 days ago
The whole point is to not charge users twice for both the volume AND the rate of flow.

It's not hot button because there is no FCC chair. If the dems seat a chair, regardless of who it is, that would allow grassroots campaigns to reactivate.

Under Trump, I believe broadband ISPs were implementing data caps, and they backed off on that after Biden was elected. And some telecoms offer zero rated content. It's far more common overseas for telecoms and content providers to partner in providing access, so you get places like the Philippines where Facebook basically is the internet.
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wankle 1203 days ago
> I believe broadband ISPs were implementing data caps, and they backed off on that after Biden was elected.

You're welcome to believe as you wish. We've never seen data cap issues, under President Trump or Biden, or any president.

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studentrob 1203 days ago
> Comcast extends delay on debuting data caps in the Northeast

> Following a multi-month suspension of its usage-based policy during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, Comcast restored and updated its data usage policies in July 2020, raising the monthly limit to 1.2 terabytes – 200 gigabytes more than the 1TB limit that was in place prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. Under the revised data plan, residential broadband customers who exceed 1.2TB of data per month are charged $10 for each additional bucket of 50GB, up to a maximum of $100 per month (Comcast's maximum data overage charge prior to the pandemic was $200). Comcast also sells a standalone unlimited data option that costs an additional $30 per month.

https://www.lightreading.com/cablevideo/comcast-extends-dela...

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ericd 1203 days ago
Are you saying that there weren't data caps being trialed? Because there very much were, and they were not generous.
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wankle 1202 days ago
I'm saying we've been with several ISP's and if any one had stopped offering unlimited access, we would have switched to a new ISP. We did switch from Spectrum to AT&T Fiber to get faster speeds up and down but otherwise Spectrum's speeds were fine and we mostly didn't have issues with them.
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ericd 1201 days ago
That’s not representative. Comcast was very actively experimenting with data caps and overage fees. And there were no very good alternatives in our area, it was them or glorified DSL.
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