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.

  • Remmy@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    I am very thankful that I do not live in the United States. Even in Canada where telecommunications services are notoriously expensive, data caps on cellphone plans are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Carriers like Freedom Mobile will simply throttle your speed instead of charging you a boatload of money once you pass your monthly data “limit”.

    • idunnololz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s ok. Compeition will drive down prices! I have so many options with internet such as Comcast and Company that pretends to compete with Comcast.

  • rizoid@midwest.socialEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    I was very close to closing on a house in rural midwest but I checked isp’s and every one available had caps so I just stayed away.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      2 years ago

      It’s why you just get a business line, usually just slightly more expensive, and you get 99.9% SLA uptime and unlimited cap.

      • theoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        You shouldn’t need a business line to get reliable, fast, unlimited internet.