They do, however, allow data caps.
These new rules are not the same as the old ones and there's definitely a handful of things that the big companies wanted that they indeed got.
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They do, however, allow data caps.
These new rules are not the same as the old ones and there's definitely a handful of things that the big companies wanted that they indeed got.
I fucking hate data caps - no reason they should exist in this day and age.
No reason they should exist in any day and age.
Companies do not pay per packet. Paying more for more bandwidth or lower latency kind of makes sense because theoretically they may be prioritizing your traffic when the network is under too much load. But sending 16 petabytes costs exactly the same as 1kb in a month, assuming your connection is fast enough to handle 16 petabytes in a month.
True companies do not pay per packet but they do pay for the bandwidth. The more users that use more bandwidth consistently means the ISP needs to invest more money on throughput/links. If you have 100 users and they use 1 mbps on average you can get away with a 100mpbs link. If you have 5 users using 50mpbs on average now you need a gig link. So technically it's not free but yeah bandwidth caps suck big time. My suggestion would be to pick a place to live near a city with a municipal broadband option.
Source? Didn't see anything in the article about it, and I did a quick search and couldn't find anything that says they would be allowed to impose data caps given the verbiage in the rules
My source is the document the FCC presented as their new net neutrality rules, which can be found here:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-401676A1.pdf
Page 317-318, Section 534-535 "Application to Data Caps"
Section 534 discusses the professor who suggests data caps should be banned, and section 535 discusses how the commission disagrees and how data caps will remain.
Also, you get an upvote for asking for a source. Cheers.
Obligatory "Fuck Ajit Pai"
seriously, Fuck Ajit Pai and his smug giant mug having ass.
You mean the same Ashit Pai who also mismanaged and blew the $9 billion rural digital opportunity fund that was supposed to help underserved areas?
That Ashit Pai?
I just want the removal of data caps. my Plex server is a hungry bitch
the data cap should be your rated speed, anything other than that is an illegally advertised speed IMO.
Get a business line, if you plan on staying at your current residence for longer than 3 years. Usually you can get it for a few dollars more than a residential line, and it'll not have a data cap, plus they're going to have a 99.99% SLA for uptime...and you're not going to be getting some script reader if you have issues.
None of my local ISPs have data caps on regular home internet plans. Y'all just need better ISPs.
100Mb symmetrical fiber is about $40-50 and Gigabit is about $80/mo from ours
This is big "stop being poor" energy.
^^ This is big "irrelevant comment" energy.
Why did it take so long to get this implemented during Biden's term? Why are we only seeing this just before the next election. I ask as an outsider to the states.
Biden's original pick got jammed up in the Senate and finally withdrew their name from consideration. This wasn't resolved until last September.
https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-7-2023/fcc-deadlock-vote-senate/
Thanks obama
Thanks Jessica Rosenworcel.
Sorry to be ignorant, but... who dat?
FCC Chairwoman who made this happen. She was also there voting against Ajit (Shit Pie) Pai when he pushed to overturn Obama era net neutrality back in 2017. She also initially set up the net neutrality rules during the Obama admin. She can be credited for fighting this fight for many years now on our behalf.
Obligatory fuck Ajit Pai
Why are there only five people voting on important FCC regulations
Dems have only had control of the FCC for a few months. It’s nice to see the regulators actually regulating, and not caving to corporate lobbyists.
Who are those 2 people?
The Republicans
What are their names?
So who are the two corrupt corporate dogs that voted against?
They are - surprise, surprise - the only two Republicans...