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.

  • ahornsirup
    0•11 months ago

    I have to use O2’s 5G (using a landline would be much slower) and there’s no data cap on it. Costs €35/month, around the same as a regular landline contract. I think they’d cry foul if I tried using that SIM in a phone though.

    • @vojel@feddit.deEnglish
      0•11 months ago

      I know ppl does this because of the crappy infrastructure in our beautiful country. I am in Berlin with 60 Mbit/s, fiber cable alread installed into my house but somethings missing yet to activate the line lol

      • ahornsirup
        1•11 months ago

        I’m in Berlin too, born and raised. 5G is still twice as fast as any landline available in my building.