Re:The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again
by syntaxing on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @11:04AM
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The bigger issue is lack of competition. I lived in an area with multiple services. AT&T gave me a $50 1G symmetrical plan, no cap. Had a friend about 5 min drive away, pays $60 for a 200/10 Concast plan with a 1T cap because that’s all the community offers. Are there abusers in the system? Yes. Is it the reason why there’s a data cap? No.
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Re:The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again
by tristor on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:12PM
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> The bigger issue is lack of competition.
Agreed, I rent currently and the landlord has a deal with Comcast, so that's the only option. There are no alternatives. This is a commonplace practice for corporately owned rentals, which is like 70% of the US rental market.
Compare this to my situation prior to my recentish relocation, where I had the ability to negotiate with multiple providers and was able to get two separate links dropped to provide myself redundancy/backup and maintain a negotiating position on price. Now I'm just over the barrel with one of the most consumer-hostile ISPs in the world.
Re:The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again
by olyjohn on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:50PM
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Not abusers. People who use the service. Using your bandwidth that you paid for is not abuse. Just because some people can't think of a way to use up "all that bandwidth" doesn't mean that using it is actually abuse.
Re:The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again
by tracker1 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:14PM
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Data caps are largely a scam... they could easily QoS or otherwise throttle their heavy users at times where total bandwidth is exhausted without creating a total cap, or overuse charges, or throttling the rest of the month.