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Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 12 2020, @11:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the also-have-great-deals-on-oceanfront-property-in-Kansas dept.

takyon writes:

Charter tries to convince FCC that broadband customers want data caps

Charter Communications has claimed to the Federal Communications Commission that broadband users enjoy having Internet plans with data caps, in a filing arguing that Charter should be allowed to impose caps on its Spectrum Internet service starting next year.

Charter isn't currently allowed to impose data caps because of conditions the FCC placed on its 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable. The data-cap condition is scheduled to expire on May 18, 2023, but Charter in June petitioned the FCC to let the condition expire two years early, in May 2021.

With consumer-advocacy groups and Internet users opposing the petition, Charter filed a response with the FCC last week, saying that plans with data caps are "popular."

"Contrary to Stop The Cap's assertion [in an FCC filing] that consumers 'hate' data caps, the marketplace currently shows that broadband service plans incorporating data caps or other usage-based pricing mechanisms are often popular when the limits are sufficiently high to satisfy the vast majority of users," Charter told the FCC.

Or you could offer some kind of software that shows which users are hogging the network.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @12:42AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @12:42AM (#1035903)

    Also taxes, cancer and anchovies.

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  • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:01AM (4 children)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:01AM (#1036033)

    Anchovies? You make me sick!

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 13 2020, @11:41PM (3 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday August 13 2020, @11:41PM (#1036361) Journal

      Anchovies are awesome, come on. I like them on pizza next to pineapple and onion, as the flavors work really well together.

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      • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Friday August 14 2020, @07:20AM (1 child)

        by Opportunist (5545) on Friday August 14 2020, @07:20AM (#1036457)

        Coming up next: Lunch!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @01:38PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @01:38PM (#1036521)

          And maybe some of breakfast too...

      • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday August 16 2020, @02:13AM

        by RS3 (6367) on Sunday August 16 2020, @02:13AM (#1037327)

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 13 2020, @04:04PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 13 2020, @04:04PM (#1036182) Journal

    Also taxes, cancer and anchovies.

    Don't forget the most popular thing of all: Death

    Death is ranked #1 most popular, based on the numbers alone, even ahead in popularity over Taxes, Cancer and Justin Bieber music.

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