• Dessalines@lemmy.mlM
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    4 years ago

    faaaack I’m jealous. I’m in the US, where I used to live in a state that had a 1 TB / month data cap, but luckily I moved to a state without one a year ago or so. I still need a VPN tho :frowning face:

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      wait what? it’s illegal to offer no or >1TB data caps by state law? or is just monopolized by a singe ISP with only 1TB data cap plans?

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        4 years ago

        The 2nd one, the country is dominated by ~4 ISPs, who each have their own cities / regions and they don’t compete with each other. So even in a very popular city, you have 1 main cable ISP, and a bunch of tinier slow ones that use DSL or dialup, so you pretty much have to use the big one. 2 of those have a 1 TB / month data cap, and if your city happens to be served by that provider, you’re screwed.

        edit: they do allow you to go “over the data cap”, but its really expensive, like $10 / 100 GB iirc. So if you did 2TB in a month, and your ISP cost $50 / month, your monthly bill is now $150