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The FCC wants to know why data caps are still a thing in 2023

www.techspot.com The FCC wants to know why data caps are still a thing in 2023

Consumer data consumption has increased exponentially in a little over a decade. According to broadband insight reports from OpenVault, monthly household data usage has skyrocketed from an...

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  • having flashbacks to a time telcoms charged $$ per text. what a desperate move to extract every bit of $$ from the literal sharing of information

    • Man that was so bullshit, text messages piggyback on the wireless handshake so they cost telecoms literally zero money.

    • Or when CallerID was an additional $8/month. It's fucking DNS for telephone numbers. Can you imagine if ISP's had charged extra for DNS and everyone decided to just memorize IP addresses instead?

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