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.

  • @[email protected]
    13•1 year ago

    In Brazil I pay 20 USD for 500mb. There are plans in my area that sells 1gb for 30 USD. Thay can’t put data caps due to legislation, only on mobile data (which I pay 6usd for 20gb cap, 5g)

    • @DagnetEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I believe some have data caps even for landline internet, they get around legislation saying you get slower Internet after you reach the cap but yeah, I pay like 25 USD for 600 mps down and 300 mps up

        • @DagnetEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Says they will decide on it, has there been a permanent decision? Not trying to start an argument just wondering how this works

          • @[email protected]English
            1•1 year ago

            They might bring it up back someday (it was “filed”), and a company could try bringing it before a judge claiming it is unfair to them.

            But, as things stand, challenging it would be a very unpopular maneuver for anyone involved, there is no political or economical lobby for it, so there is no reason to be afraid of it being changed short term.

            • @DagnetEnglish
              2•1 year ago

              I see, thx for the info. I hope it’s not something that can be changed be presidential decree like when bolsonaro ended the 2x 32kg bag allowance we had for absolutely no reason