Reddit, Mozilla, Others Urge FCC To Formally Investigate Broadband Usage Caps...
We've noted how the FCC's latest net neutrality rules do a lot of things right, but they failed to seriously address zero rating or broadband usage caps, opening the door to ISPs violently abusing net...
View ArticleBroadband ISP Cox Will Now Charge You $50 More To Avoid Usage Caps, Overage Fees
We've noted repeatedly how large ISPs for years have happily abused the lack of competition in the broadband market by imposing arbitrary, unnecessary and confusing usage caps and overage fees. While...
View ArticleUnlimited Data Customers Report Fewer Network Problems Than Capped Users
Back in 2011, you might recall that AT&T and Verizon stopped offering users unlimited wireless data plans. Taking advantage of a lack of competition at the time, the duo worked in concert to shove...
View ArticleAs Broadband Usage Caps Expand, Nobody Is Checking Whether Usage Meters Are...
Despite the hype surrounding Google Fiber and gigabit connections, vast swaths of the U.S. broadband industry are actually becoming less competitive than ever. As large telcos like Windstream,...
View ArticleRight On Cue, Marsha Blackburn Introduces A Fake Net Neutrality Bill To Make...
As we just got done saying, giant ISPs are well aware that last week's unpopular FCC vote to repeal net neutrality rests on very shaky legal ground. The agency will be facing all manner of lawsuits in...
View ArticleAT&T Lets Users Avoid Broadband Caps...If They Use AT&T's Own Streaming Service
So we've long noted how broadband usage caps on fixed-line broadband connections are bullshit. While ISPs used to insist that such limits were necessary to manage "congestion," they've long since been...
View ArticleUS Bandwidth Consumption Surges As Usage Caps Pose A Looming Threat
We've noted for years how broadband providers have increasingly imposed arbitrary, confusing, and punitive usage caps and overage fees to cash in on the lack of competition in US broadband. Not only...
View ArticleGoogle Stadia Is About To Show Everyone Why Broadband Usage Caps Are Bullshit
We've noted for years how broadband providers have increasingly imposed arbitrary, confusing, and punitive usage caps and overage fees to cash in on the lack of competition in US broadband. Not only...
View ArticleStudy Says Broadband Caps Are A Big Problem For Google's Game Streaming...
For years broadband providers have increasingly imposed arbitrary, confusing, and punitive usage caps and overage fees to cash in on the lack of competition in US broadband. Not only have industry...
View ArticleCanadian Wireless Carrier Rogers 'Surprised' That People Like Unlimited Data...
Despite industry claims, US wireless is painfully mediocre. US consumers pay some of the highest prices for mobile data in the developed world, thanks to regulatory capture and wireless competitors...
View ArticleAT&T Exec Insists That No Broadband Company Is Violating Net Neutrality Even...
For a couple of years now, AT&T has been trampling net neutrality without much of anybody giving a damn. Like many ISPs eager to take full advantage of limited US broadband competition, AT&T...
View ArticleFancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps
For many years in the early aughts, broadband providers insisted they needed to impose usage caps and costly overage fees to help manage network congestion. By 2015, leaked documents from Comcast...
View ArticleComcast Graciously Extends Suspension Of Completely Unnecessary Data Caps
After pressure from consumer groups, major ISPs last month announced that they would be suspending all usage caps and overage fees for 60 days in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, US...
View ArticleISPs Finally Lifted Data Caps. It Only Took A Global Pandemic
During the catastrophic 2018 wildfires in California, Verizon made a painful and memorable gaffe: It throttled the Santa Clara Fire Department’s supposedly “unlimited” broadband data, causing the...
View ArticleCanadian Wireless Carriers Making A Killing During COVID-19, Won't Remove...
Canadians already pay some of the highest prices for mobile data in the developed world thanks to limited competition and feckless regulators. With COVID-19 forcing everybody to stay at home, rural...
View ArticleBizarre Court Ruling Helps Cable Broadband Monopoly Charter Tap Dance Around...
Eager to impose higher rates on its mostly captive customers, Charter Communications (Spectrum) has been lobbying the FCC to kill merger conditions affixed to its 2015 merger with Time Warner Cable....
View ArticleMonopolistic U.S. ISPs Take Full Advantage Of The Covid Crisis
We've noted for years that broadband usage caps are bullshit. Leaked ISP documents and public executive statements have repeatedly made it clear that usage caps and overage fees are just glorified...
View ArticleBullshit Broadband Usage Caps Are Hugely Profitable During A Pandemic
We've noted for years how broadband providers have increasingly imposed arbitrary, confusing, and punitive usage caps and overage fees to cash in on the lack of competition in US broadband. Not only...
View ArticleComcast Expands Its Bullshit Usage Caps...In The Middle Of A Pandemic
Contrary to what some try to claim, broadband usage caps have always been bullshit. They serve absolutely no technical function, do not help manage congestion, and exist exclusively to nickel-and-dime...
View ArticleAT&T Whines That California Net Neutrality Rules Are Forcing It To Behave
Giant US ISPs have long (ab)used the lack of competition in the broadband market by imposing completely arbitrary and unnecessary monthly usage caps and overage fees. They've also taken to exempting...
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