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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: 3, Insightful) by jasassin on Thursday August 13 2020, @12:56AM (2 children)

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Thursday August 13 2020, @12:56AM (#1035911) Homepage Journal

    If the FCC asked people "Do you like data caps?" the answer would be one of the following:

    1. No.

    2. Am I being punked?

    3. What's a data cap?

    DAAAAAAAAA (slaps limp wrist against chest repeatedly) sure, please cap my data! While your at it DAAAAAAAA could you cap my intimate relations to 1.2 per month? DAAAAAAAAAA...

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:13AM (#1036044)

    I'll take a data cap if you raise my intimate relations to 1.2 per month.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Thursday August 13 2020, @04:07PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 13 2020, @04:07PM (#1036186) Journal

    People would complain: I can't wear my Data Cap and my MAGA cap at the same time!

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