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.

  • krayj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

    For the past 15 years I’ve had a data cap on home internet, but never had a data cap prior to that.

    That’s led me to believe the exact opposite of your observation; unlimited data is a thing of the past and data caps are a thing of the present and future.