Broadband Consumer Labels

Re:Broadband Consumer Labels by Damogran6 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @10:11PM (#35623433)

My concern is the cap. Xfinity has one, it's 1Tb. I blow through double that each month due to WFH. I'm paying the extra fee to make the cap go away, but it's disingenuous to sell 'gig speeds' an retain that 1Tb cap. That means you can blow through that in a weekend Teenaged Boy LanParty.

It's not the same animal, by any stretch of the term, but I remember all-you-could-eat Internet for $20 a month with my 52k modem.

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Re:Broadband Consumer Labels by schemescape on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @10:41PM (#35623644)

There's a section labeled "Data included with monthly price", with a line for "Charges for additional data usage".

I agree with your point, but at least the information would be provided in a standard format.

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Re:Broadband Consumer Labels by pyrelight on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @10:30PM (#35623564)

Yeah, it's a little disappointing that they are being obtuse with some of the stats on the label. Data caps, overage fees and bandwidth throttling should definitely be highly visible.

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Re:Broadband Consumer Labels by flutas on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @10:39PM (#35623632)

> Yeah, it's a little disappointing that they are being obtuse with some of the stats on the label. Data caps, overage fees and bandwidth throttling should definitely be highly visible.

I agree about throttling, but data caps and overage fees are both on there, no? Right under the avg speeds it lists "Data included with monthly price" and the line below it is the overage amount in $/GB. Seems very straightforward to me.

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