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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What country are you in the midwest of? That really sucks, I emphasise :-(

I know they have a lot of data aps like that in developing nations still, like those in Africa, but generally in the western world we moved past those around 15 years ago at least, thank the gods. I've not even had a date limit on my phone since 2014, so handy for tethering the laptop when I'm on the move!

I'm in the UK, for reference :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mediacom is an American telco.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Western world, try anywhere. I'm from Eastern Europe and I haven't had a data cap even on my mobile network for a while.

I've never even seen even offers of data capped wire connections in person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't, it's an e-sim.

But you can get your own for 30 EUR here with no data cap, or 10 EUR with a data cap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just curious, which country is "here"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago