Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."

FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard::Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says “no.”

    • @havokdj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18•2 years ago

      They don’t cap data because there is a “finite supply of data” they cap it because there is a finite amount of bandwidth.

      That being said though, it should still be banned because it isn’t 2005 anymore and the bandwidth we have is absolutely ridiculous.

      • TipRingEnglish
        12•2 years ago

        They aren’t rate limiting bandwidth, but monthly utilization and those are uncoupled values. Besides your plan already limits your bandwidth. The data cap is just an added fee.

      • @uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7•2 years ago

        there is a finite amount of bandwidth.

        And why after saying “you will not get more than 100Mbit/s” they say “also you will not get more than 10Gbit/mo”? It is not just a note about theoretical limit, but actual data cap.

      • MrGerritEnglish
        6•2 years ago

        I’m from the Netherlands and remember when we first got internet over the television cable. It was already unlimited use. Well under FUP (fair use policy), meaning that you could get charged when you extremely exceeded the downloaded data average of all other users. I downloaded everything I could get my hand on and never got a charge for it.

        Now I have 1gig fiber connection for €60, I would go crazy if I had data caps.

          • @pleasejustdie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            Same, but before it was available in my area I was stuck with “1gig” cable that was really like .75gig because they only guarantee “up to 1gig” and 700mb is not over “1gig” therefor I’m getting what I paid for (Had this actual conversation with a customer service rep when I requested they send a tech to find out why I NEVER get the advertised speeds and my modem was reporting thousands of errors in the data between it and my provider)… and cost me $120/month with a 1TB data cap, or $170/month for unlimited. Now that the DSL provider in my area ran fiber to my neighborhood, I switched to the unlimited 1gig fiber for $70/month with no hidden fees, rate locked for life, and told my old cable provider to go pound sand while sipping wine and rubbing my nipples.

      • Thom GrayEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        There is also a “finite supply” of clean water and electricity, but during the dawn of the Internet age corporations had more lobbying power than before and were able to stave off real meaningful regulation, now the consumer pays the price. We need to stop giving corporations the same rights as people and revisit the 14th Amendment they stole personhood from, as it wasn’t intended for that purpose. Regardless of what Mitt Romney might think, corporations are not people.