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.

  • eatstorming@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’m not normalizing anything and I didn’t say there is nowhere you can get unlimited plans. I said it’s not a thing of the past.

    I too have uncapped broadband, but I know it’s not something I should fall into the trap of taking for granted.

    • CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      So in europe unlimited plans are totally normal except for mobile. I pay 40€ for 250 Mbit with no data caps.