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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: 2) by RS3 on Friday August 14 2020, @01:27PM (1 child)

    by RS3 (6367) on Friday August 14 2020, @01:27PM (#1036519)

    I remember much longer cords though. Maybe they were an option? A friend of mine's mom recently passed away and she still has a working wall-mounted probably 1970s phone. I'll measure the cord and get back to you. It may be 2' coil retracted. Love or hate it, you have to admit that old stuff never broke ("never" being a close approximation in context).

    But you reminded me: one place I worked mid-90s, landline times, did not allow personal calls on company phone lines. Maybe 80 total employees in 3 buildings, each building had 1 personal call phone line, the "big" building having several physical phones on that line. The company owner's wife, who headed HR and many administrative departments, had 4" coil cords (when stretched out) made for the wall-mounted phones. On each cord was a tag that said "Short wire, short call".

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday August 14 2020, @02:21PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday August 14 2020, @02:21PM (#1036533)

    On each cord was a tag that said "Short wire, short call".

    Classic.

    I'm remembering my Grandmother's kitchen phone, which was there on the wall by the fridge for the first 20 years of my life. She also had a desk phone in the bedroom which had a wire long enough that you could move it pretty much anywhere on the bed: luxury of choice and flexibility for then.

    Even in 1995, we only had two dedicated lines for 6 employees to access the internet (via 38.4Kbaud modems), and we made up little switch plates that lit up when a line was in use, so you could select the other line for your modem. I think we finally got DSL and proper networked internet access at the office in 1998 - a few weeks after I got it at home.

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