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]English
    6•1 year ago

    About 63€/68$ for 100/10mbps speed and a 150GB data cap. Including a cable tv subscription.

    That’s in Europe.

    • @SchmuppesEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Where? That’s horrific.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        Belgium. The company is owned and ran by Liberty Global.

        My mother has been connected to fiber recently (which she doesn’t need at all…advised against it, but you know sales pushing…) She gets an eye-watering 500/500mbps no cap connection for 78$ (including tv and fixed phone)

        I’m more ‘rural’ so minimum 5 years before any fiber is passing by…

        Could get a speed bump to 300/20mbps and ‘no cap’ (fair use policy) for about 10$ extra.

    • Echo DotEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      You get a much better deal if you didn’t include TV subscription which no one needs these days anyway because you can stream everything.

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

        Yeah I could live without the cable subscription, but my wife cannot. Same plan with internet only would be about 36.50$