Broadband Provider Wide Open West Tries To Justify Unnecessary Broadband Caps...
For a long time now, we've explained how broadband usage caps are bullshit. They serve no technical purpose on the network, and aren't genuinely helpful in managing congestion. Their real role is...
View ArticleBroadband Data Caps Mysteriously Disappear When Competition Comes Knocking
We've noted for years how broadband data caps (and monthly overage fees) are complete bullshit. They serve absolutely no technical function, and despite years of ISPs trying to claim they "help manage...
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...
View ArticleBroadband Provider Wide Open West Tries To Justify Unnecessary Broadband Caps...
For a long time now, we’ve explained how broadband usage caps are bullshit. They serve no technical purpose on the network, and aren’t genuinely helpful in managing congestion. Their real role is...
View ArticleBroadband Data Caps Mysteriously Disappear When Competition Comes Knocking
We’ve noted for years how broadband data caps (and monthly overage fees) are complete bullshit. They serve absolutely no technical function, and despite years of ISPs trying to claim they “help manage...
View ArticleBroadband Usage Caps Now Drive MORE Broadband Usage, Study Finds
We’ve noted for years how broadband usage caps are a pointless, unnecessary cash grab by telecom monopolies looking to nickel-and-dime consumers who already pay too much for broadband. The telecom...
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