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A taste of the future of no net neutrality

poweRob

poweRob

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Apparently I'm lucky because I'm in what xfinitiy just told me a "trial market" for my internet. What are they testing you say?

DATA CAPS BABY!

We are now data capped at 1.024TB of data usage per month. How do I know this? Because now when you use more than that, you get a nice friendly window that pops up in your browser from xfinity and lets you know. From there, you get charged for a 50gb bundle for $10 more. And another $10 for the next 50GB you go over.

So go out and buy some lube to prepare yourself fellow comcast customers. My other option for internet you ask? Centurylink. Whose top speed in my area is 20mbps. I'm currently on xfinity at 200mbps. And no, buying faster plans does not get you a higher cap.

As for you centurylink customers, I just googled "centurylink datacap" and guess what? They are running a test market for data usage billing their customers too.

IMPORTANT: Internet and data usage limits only apply to customers who are part of a usage-based billing trial for CenturyLink® High-Speed Internet subscribers in Yakima, Washington.​

I can't thank you conservatives and your representatives enough for all you do working hard to scrap net neutrailty and to always back the monopoly over the customer. Appreciate it! Can't wait for you to join me in this brave new internet world you helped create.

Next step... billing me more for what sites I prefer to go to.
 
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poweRob said:
Apparently I'm lucky because I'm in a test market for Comcast's xfinity internet. What are they testing you say?

DATA CAPS BABY!

We are now data capped at 1.024TB of data usage per month. How do I know this? Because now when you use more than that, you get a nice friendly window that pops up in your browser from xfinity and lets you know. From there, you get charged for a 50gb bundle for $10 more. And another $10 for the next 50GB you go over.

So go out and buy some lube to prepare yourself fellow comcast customers. Oh, my other option for internet you ask? Centurylink. Whose top speed in my area is 20mbps. I'm currently on xfinity at 200mbps. And no, buying faster plans does not get you a higher cap.

As for you centurylink customers, I just googled "centurylink datacap" and guess what? They are running a test market for capping their customer too.

IMPORTANT: Internet and data usage limits only apply to customers who are part of a usage-based billing trial for CenturyLink® High-Speed Internet subscribers in Yakima, Washington.​

I can't thank you conservatives and your representatives enough for all you do to scrap net neutrailty and to always back the monopoly over the customer. Appreciate it! Can't wait for you to join me in this brave new internet world you helped create.
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Cons won't care. Even when it's against their own interests they happily bend over for the rich and the Corps. in this country.
 
It's how they limit streaming and downloading, so that the movie industry can remain "competitive". Just another way to slow human progress.
 
Northern Light said:
It's how they limit streaming and downloading, so that the movie industry can remain "competitive". Just another way to slow human progress.
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Yes. Exactly. They are basically trying to punish me for using SlingTV instead of comcast TV by squeezing my internet service.
 
poweRob said:
Apparently I'm lucky because I'm in what xfinitiy just told me a "trial market" for my internet. What are they testing you say?

DATA CAPS BABY!

We are now data capped at 1.024TB of data usage per month. How do I know this? Because now when you use more than that, you get a nice friendly window that pops up in your browser from xfinity and lets you know. From there, you get charged for a 50gb bundle for $10 more. And another $10 for the next 50GB you go over.

So go out and buy some lube to prepare yourself fellow comcast customers. My other option for internet you ask? Centurylink. Whose top speed in my area is 20mbps. I'm currently on xfinity at 200mbps. And no, buying faster plans does not get you a higher cap.

As for you centurylink customers, I just googled "centurylink datacap" and guess what? They are running a test market for data usage billing their customers too.

IMPORTANT: Internet and data usage limits only apply to customers who are part of a usage-based billing trial for CenturyLink® High-Speed Internet subscribers in Yakima, Washington.​

I can't thank you conservatives and your representatives enough for all you do working hard to scrap net neutrailty and to always back the monopoly over the customer. Appreciate it! Can't wait for you to join me in this brave new internet world you helped create.

Next step... billing me more for what sites I prefer to go to.
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Yeah, you just wait until that's also unregulated and the "lube" turns out to be mislabeled superglue.
 
poweRob said:
Apparently I'm lucky because I'm in what xfinitiy just told me a "trial market" for my internet. What are they testing you say?

DATA CAPS BABY!

We are now data capped at 1.024TB of data usage per month. How do I know this? Because now when you use more than that, you get a nice friendly window that pops up in your browser from xfinity and lets you know. From there, you get charged for a 50gb bundle for $10 more. And another $10 for the next 50GB you go over.

So go out and buy some lube to prepare yourself fellow comcast customers. My other option for internet you ask? Centurylink. Whose top speed in my area is 20mbps. I'm currently on xfinity at 200mbps. And no, buying faster plans does not get you a higher cap.

As for you centurylink customers, I just googled "centurylink datacap" and guess what? They are running a test market for data usage billing their customers too.

IMPORTANT: Internet and data usage limits only apply to customers who are part of a usage-based billing trial for CenturyLink® High-Speed Internet subscribers in Yakima, Washington.​

I can't thank you conservatives and your representatives enough for all you do working hard to scrap net neutrailty and to always back the monopoly over the customer. Appreciate it! Can't wait for you to join me in this brave new internet world you helped create.

Next step... billing me more for what sites I prefer to go to.
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Can you link to the new regulations passed since January 20th that caused this?
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Cons won't care. Even when it's against their own interests they happily bend over for the rich and the Corps. in this country.
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For the record many "cons" are for net neutrality. I know I am, I would guess most "technical", equal rights and law based people are.
 
scatt said:
So your issue is with Obama's regulation?
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My issue is with the monopoly structure of business. Obama could've done more, but conservatives will now ramrod monopolies down the public's throats.
 
Comcast has always had mo. data caps here in Seattle. Used to be 250gb, then it went up to 300gb, now it's 1 TB.
 
poweRob said:
My issue is with the monopoly structure of business.
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The state issued monopoly? Let me guess, the state will fix the problem it caused?
 
scatt said:
The state issued monopoly? Let me guess, the state will fix the problem it caused?
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Not with republicans in charge. They love this. As I'm sure you do. Enjoy!
 
the_recruit said:
Comcast has always had mo. data caps here in Seattle. Used to be 250gb, then it went up to 300gb, now it's 1 TB.
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Do you have other choices there?
 
poweRob said:
Apparently I'm lucky because I'm in what xfinitiy just told me a "trial market" for my internet. What are they testing you say?

DATA CAPS BABY!

We are now data capped at 1.024TB of data usage per month. How do I know this? Because now when you use more than that, you get a nice friendly window that pops up in your browser from xfinity and lets you know. From there, you get charged for a 50gb bundle for $10 more. And another $10 for the next 50GB you go over.

So go out and buy some lube to prepare yourself fellow comcast customers. My other option for internet you ask? Centurylink. Whose top speed in my area is 20mbps. I'm currently on xfinity at 200mbps. And no, buying faster plans does not get you a higher cap.

As for you centurylink customers, I just googled "centurylink datacap" and guess what? They are running a test market for data usage billing their customers too.

IMPORTANT: Internet and data usage limits only apply to customers who are part of a usage-based billing trial for CenturyLink® High-Speed Internet subscribers in Yakima, Washington.​

I can't thank you conservatives and your representatives enough for all you do working hard to scrap net neutrailty and to always back the monopoly over the customer. Appreciate it! Can't wait for you to join me in this brave new internet world you helped create.

Next step... billing me more for what sites I prefer to go to.
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As predicted:

Meet the new, business-friendly FCC

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/david-pogue-on-fcc-and-net-neutrality-205449750.html

The "free market"? Okay, let's see how you like it.
 
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the_recruit said:
Comcast has always had mo. data caps here in Seattle. Used to be 250gb, then it went up to 300gb, now it's 1 TB.
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Here they had what they said was a 250gb data cap that they chose to not enforce. Those days are gone.

I particularly like how when they try these caps out they roll out a list of, "Looky at all you can still do with this cap!!!!!!!1!!!!!" I recall a long time ago when video started becoming more popular on the web they pulled this crap and said, "With the current cap we want to put on you can:

1) Get 1000 emails.
2) Send 1000 emails.

Intentionally acting blind to the changing use of the internet.
 
Porkuloss said:
As predicted:

Meet the new, business-friendly FCC

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/david-pogue-on-fcc-and-net-neutrality-205449750.html

The "free market"? Okay, let's see how you like it.
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And still simply because of politics Working Class/Middle Class Republicans will defend these companies and monopolies.. And those very same companies will steal money right out of their wallets.

Of all the things that make me scratch my head when it comes to the modern day Conservatives, the fact that they so willing defend the rich and large corporations which in turn means in many cases they are just cutting their own throats.

This is just another example of Trump and his admin kissing up to big businesses at the expense of the ordinary citizen. These people who voted for this guy because they believed his BS about Trump being an anti-elitist and being a 'populist' were conned.. Trump's a populist my ass. He's a big business, big bank, globalist.

Problem is we are all going to pay higher costs, not just the gullible lemmings who got conned voting for this 'populist'.
 
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