Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you
Data caps reflect “highly competitive environment,” cable lobby tells FCC.
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Data caps are good for you actually. Cable companies and Trump's FCC chair agree.
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Non-stop wins for consumers in the coming days.
Who could have seen this coming….
Sure be nice if we could limit how much "data" that advertisers could spam you with.
That's a bandwidth-suck for people. Give me the ability on my device to limit how much they can push at me.
You stupid Lib. This will fight inflation.
What are you people talking about?
With caps in place internet pricing has consistently gone down.
It's one of the few areas in the economy where the economic growth is so fast it overwhelms government inflation of the money supply, and our transit prices continue to go down.
And since 2015?
And today, I'm paying $60 a month for this:
Y'all bureaucrat worshippers stay out of the way.
The capitalists got this.
Tell me you don't understand the difference between speed and caps without telling me you don't understand the difference between speed and caps.What are you people talking about?
With caps in place internet pricing has consistently gone down.
It's one of the few areas in the economy where the economic growth is so fast it overwhelms government inflation of the money supply, and our transit prices continue to go down.
And since 2015?
And today, I'm paying $60 a month for this:
Y'all bureaucrat worshippers stay out of the way.
The capitalists got this.
Come at me, bro.
Caps are how internet providers tier service, allowing people who use less to pay less than people who use more.
Pricing people who use more higher rates enables internet providers to increase investment to meet need and increase speed.
Increased speed ultimately benefits the people who pay less: see charts above
If you can’t understand how this works just stay out of the way.
I pay an extra $20 for unlimited data.. wanna bet that goes away soon
How much do you want to bet the solution is to raise everyone bill $25. Something like this gives them cover.
Why do you think that would go away?
That’s a facet of the tiered pricing that has existed this whole time.
Why would companies not want to charge people who want more data transfer more money for that level of access?
This pricing structure enables them to charge people who want to use less lower rates, which helps them draw more customers that don’t have your level of demand.
What’s the logic behind universal pricing for different levels of consumption?
Typical,.. the one size fits all approach allows big users to get by cheap, riding on the backs of average subscribers..
Probably no coincidence that my internet has flaked off for 5 min intervals over a dozen times this month, and right now I'm getting 50-75% of the bandwidth I'm actually paying for....
ISPs are already prepping for zero accountability to consumers...
"Requiring all users to pay for unlimited data would raise prices for consumers who use little data," USTelecom wrote. "This difference in price could be the deciding factor in whether an individual can, or wants to, subscribe to broadband. Moreover, requiring flat pricing plans with unlimited data would effectively require those who use less data to subsidize those that use more."
What is wrong with this statement? Makes sense to me
What is wrong with this statement? Makes sense to me
unfortunately this is my experience as well. also i keep reading people everywhere are getting mind blowing (1G) internet speeds for 50 bucks but i'm stuck paying nearly double for half
