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

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 DannyB on Thursday August 13 2020, @03:59PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 13 2020, @03:59PM (#1036179) Journal

    I was a young adult then AT&T was broked up. Suddenly:
    * cheap plastic phones everywhere, K-Mart, Radio Shack
    * in every shape, size, color, style, and gimmick imaginable
    * long distance rates got much cheaper, to the point where eventually long distance charges effectively disappeared from an ordinary home phone service

    But the new gouging for outrageous prices was the then-new cell phones.

    And then internet service.

    It's all these guys know how to do.

    How about this: Be the biggest, most bestest, fastest, dump pipes there ever was. At a reasonable price that enabled you to build and operate your system, with a healthy profit. Stop all the price gouging games. Hidden fees.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday August 14 2020, @10:50AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday August 14 2020, @10:50AM (#1036497)

    a reasonable price that enabled you to build and operate your system, with a healthy profit.

    No such thing... without pressure the system bloats with lazy pensioned line worker employees, multiple layers of high paid management, and shareholders that demand 10%+ annual ROI. Hell, even with average "free market competition" pressure you get most of that.

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