The FCC wants to know why data caps are still a thing in 2023
The FCC wants to know why data caps are still a thing in 2023
Consumer data consumption has increased exponentially in a little over a decade. According to broadband insight reports from OpenVault, monthly household data usage has skyrocketed from an...
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It's ridiculous I have to pay Xfinity $110/mo for my speed and unlimited bandwidth
God damn. In Austria I'm paying 35€ for 250/250, and am still looking over to the Romanians with longing eyes. Data caps are only on mobile - which is still questionable in my eyes.
I pay $99 for 300/5 unlimited. I don't mind it, but would much rather have 100/100 for that price.
Data caps on mobile makes more sense to me, simply because mobile data is so much more expensive.
Is it?
To me it seems it's cheaper to build an antenna to serve 100-1000s of users than to dig and install cables to all of them.
It depends on what you're trying to do. If you're just trying to reach them and don't care about bandwidth, wireless is the way to go. It's why more developed countries lagged behind developing countries on the transition to wireless phones. But when you're trying to deploy shear amounts of bandwidth, nothing beats fiber. It's incredibly fast, has low latency, and doesn't get interference.
And I suppose I should say that I think unlimited is a bad idea in general. I favor paying for what I use. People who use expensive infrastructure sparingly should pay less than people use it a lot.
Over here, I'm getting the Cox... last bill was $99 a month, now my "promo period" expired, and it is the full $170 a month thanks to "unlimited". It's pretty gross, but it is the only plan that gives the "amazing" 30 mbps up. :|
EDIT: This is for home internet, 1000 down/30 up, unlimited data
That’s crazy! I’m paying 18 EUR a month for unlimited 1000 mbps download and 1000 mbps upload and I thought my bill was high. 😲
Oh. You were talking about mobile data. That’s still extremely expensive.
Sadly, I’m not talking about mobile data. This is coax modem landline internet… for that price… they only get away with it because I don’t have a choice, and I need it to be able to work.
After probably 5 years of having fiber less than 5 miles from our house and having to pay Xfinity extra for no cap, both that company and our power company expanded into our neighborhood about a month ago. The power company has not gone "live" yet, but the other did.
Our bill went from $117 to $65 at least for the first 3 years. It'll go up after but we'll also have 3 choices. Xfinity was 800/12, the fiber is 1gb/500.
It was pretty satisfying cancelling Xfinity even though we had no issues with it as a service, just overpriced.