eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoT-Mobile illegally imposed 50GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says: Law requires 25Mbps home Internet. T-Mobile lowers speed to 600Kbps after 50GB cap.arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square126linkfedilinkarrow-up1879arrow-down13
arrow-up1876arrow-down1external-linkT-Mobile illegally imposed 50GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says: Law requires 25Mbps home Internet. T-Mobile lowers speed to 600Kbps after 50GB cap.arstechnica.comeicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square126linkfedilink
minus-squareouch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·20 hours agoUS is a weird country. I live in EU, and I haven’t even heard of bandwidth quotas on home fiber. Cheap mobile subscriptions have some, though. But mostly it’s just no limit.
minus-squarethemaninblack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·19 hours agoIt used to be that way in the U.S. but Americans love companies extracting rent at the same time the public is subsidising them. Americans are ignorant and utterly obsessed with laissez-faire capitalism
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·16 hours agoYou mean data quotas, bandwidth is what is capped.
US is a weird country.
I live in EU, and I haven’t even heard of bandwidth quotas on home fiber. Cheap mobile subscriptions have some, though. But mostly it’s just no limit.
It used to be that way in the U.S. but Americans love companies extracting rent at the same time the public is subsidising them.
Americans are ignorant and utterly obsessed with laissez-faire capitalism
You mean data quotas, bandwidth is what is capped.