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.

  • dmm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Damn. Our symmetrical 500 mbps plan, with no caps, is USD 14 per month

    • bruhduh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      You’re taking about 3rd world countries internet right? Cuz in piracy subreddit comments I’ve seen that only 1st world countries still have data cap on wired internet

      • Brunacho@feddit.clEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        third world countries are keeping up. My ISP reserves the right to throttle my bandwidth once use a certain amount of data. I have to say I haven’t noticed it do it yet. Yet being the keyword here.