The FCC is still taking comments from the public about how much data you really use and what your experience with data caps is like.
The Federal Communications Commission is officially looking into broadband data caps and their impact on consumers. On Tuesday, the FCC approved a notice of inquiry to examine whether data caps harm consumers and competition, as well as why data caps persist “despite increased broadband needs” and the “technical ability to offer unlimited data plans,” as spotted earlier by Engadget.
Many internet plans come with a data cap that limits how much bandwidth you can use each month. If you go over the data cap, internet service providers will typically charge an extra fee or slow down your service. The FCC first started inviting consumers to comment on broadband data caps last June, hundreds of which you can now read on the agency’s website.
You can still share your experience with broadband data caps with the FCC through this form, which will ask for details about the name of your ISP, usage limits, and any challenges you’ve encountered due to the cap.
Money.
When something isn’t about money or power, then you can actually phrase it like it’s a surprise.
I want to know why upstream bandwidth is so limited too. I have about 300gb of data at home, not much at all by hoarder standards. But there is no decent way for me to back it up to a remote server, because of low upload speed.
I got FIOS gigabit recently, and was very surprised to find that I now regularly get 300&400mb upload speeds
They exist to make ISPs more money. Duh
It’s about time.
Internet providers tried to implement data caps in my country but it got shot down, its sad you guys have to put up with that nonsense
when i lived in Bangkok I had to pay for each local wifi IP from the standard router in my apartment which i had to buy from them in order to use a 4G internet subscription service.
It’s even more ridiculous than the OP ridiculous greed shittification.
I pay (converted) USD20 for 600Mb download, 300Mb upload, completely unlimited
The caps don’t go up either, even though shit uses more data. Xfinity has been at ~1TB forever despite that fact that 4k video uses insane amounts of data now and that downloading 1 video game can easily take 300 GB.
I remember when the ISP said that we would never need 1TB, it’s like 1 million floppies. They knew we would be here needing that data when game downloads are now 150GB+
this is being brought up from MSFS 2024, lot of nerds in planes were about to get hit with that limit and the FCC is like its time to shine!!
yes
I hope they get rid of them.
