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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dagnet 2 points 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