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.
They exist so that companies can extract additional dollars from each data line.
Its like they can sell you the same ticket to the show twice.
More like one charge to have access to the show, and an additional charge for having the audacity to actually watch it.
Money.
When something isn’t about money or power, then you can actually phrase it like it’s a surprise.
and why they still exist
Does that really require inquiry? It’s for more money, fucking obviously.
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.
On cable it’s because they allocate significantly more bandwidth towards download than upload. They could allocate them equally but most customers that are mostly just streaming or playing games care only about the download since it means they can stream/download things faster.
Because when cable service was built, the only upstream data was the tiny messages a cable box would send. https://superuser.com/a/1519918
This is decades later and most of that stuff has been replaced multiple times by now.
And only in the past couple years have we been hitting that limit. Maintaining backwards compliance has been more important for cable service. Anyone who had a real need would have used T-carrier service, fiber, or multiple bonded lines, depending on year and budget.
They exist to make ISPs more money. Duh
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
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+
I hope they get rid of them.
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!!
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