• ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    You have data caps on your broadband connections in the US? Does your phones have rotary dials too?

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      1 month ago

      It is insane. Even worse is we (taxpayers) gave them money to improve infrastructure and they put it in their pockets instead.

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        1 month ago

        And also you know we INVENTED THE INTERNET AND PAID FOR THEIR CABLES.

        What the fuck do they even do? Sell data? Like this should just be a section of the government but everyone is obsessed with the private sector holding shit

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          1 month ago

          Yes yes because any time the government does something to help individuals instead of business it’s SoCiALiSm.

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      1 month ago

      A lot of plans do. Especially with the major telecom networks like ATT and Verizon.

      Recently had a smaller company come in and install fiber. $85/mo for Gigabit service with no data cap. That’s pretty good compared to what I was paying. ATT only offered 500Mb/s and that was over $110 a month with a data cap, I want to say 800GB.

      Do not get reliable enough cell coverage for one of those mobile routers. But they aren’t any cheaper here since those are owned by the major telecoms.

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      yeah funny enough, this is more of a recent thing. it’s still spreading at the moment. isps over here just kind of got it in their head that they could make extra money with this one day.

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      1 month ago

      That seems like some one off or a rural connection.

      I work with a large remote team across the US. Most people on my team have gig internet, some get slower 100 meg internet. Mine is gig, I pay $60/mo and have no data cap.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      I pay double what I did in the city for half the speed, but thank fuck I’ve got no data caps or I’d not have moved here, and I’ve made a decent Internet plan a hard requirement on ever moving

      The 6 TB of torrents I’ve uploaded in the last month appreciate it, I’m sure