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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[Zeppos]

I keep saying this, I am very happy with my ISPs data cap. It is 250GB, I never hit it. If I do I can buy a few extra GB for that month, or have a very slow internet speed. If I need more than 250GB every month, there are plenty of nice upgrades that cost extra. Not only the cap goes up, but the internet speeds get ridiculously fast. Nice!

My parents, my parents in law, brother in law and my many sisters all have the lowest subscription with 250GB a month. None of them hit the limit. Ever. (Yes, my many sisters have many children that watch youtube) The in-laws do not reproduce in large numbers.

My tech fancy colleagues on the other hand complain about datacaps a lot. 250GB is way too low! What is this, the middle ages? The culprit? Watching tv shows in 4k and HDR on their fancy over the top OLED displays. Oh yes, they do download a linux distribution. (over and over I guess)

Let them pay extra for that. They love complaining about it.

* I live in Belgium, ISPs actually do invest in their networks here, it does change the story a bit, I think.

 

[Zeppos]

Wow, they do something crazy like...stream TV? Those fucking hooligans!

/s

And now you know why caps exist. Watching TV not from the cable company? That'll cost ya!

Stream TV in 4k and hdr you mean? Yup, bandwidth goes through the roof if you turn that on.

We do Netflix here. Cap is still no issue. Only a minority has issues with data cap in my experience. It usually is limited to tech oriented people.

Oh well...

 

[Zeppos]

My parents aren't "tech oriented people." They're normal older folks. They use 1+TB a month pretty easily because they have an OTT linear TV service as well as a handful of streaming services.

God forbid someone watches a highly compressed Netflix stream in "4K." A whole 15mbps, wow. How can the poor ISPs cope.

I don't know anyone who has an issue with data caps because I don't know anyone with a data cap. They're unnecessary. My parents used to have one when they were on a lower tier of service from their cable provider. They upgraded to a higher speed and the cap went away. So what, the cap isn't needed if you have an even greater ability to suck down more data? Or is it an excuse to squeeze more money out of people? They've since switched to a cellular provider because the cable company was so unreliable and they have no cap.

Looks like our experiences are different. 10 000 miles can do that I guess.