• ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    You have data caps on your broadband connections in the US? Does your phones have rotary dials too?

    $190 bucks a month for a limitless connection is insane. I’m too cheap to pay 30€ a month for unlimited fibre connection so I use 4G router which gives me around 40Mbps unlimited connection and it costs me 10€ a month.

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      22 minutes ago

      yeah funny enough, this is more of a recent thing. it’s still spreading at the moment. isps over here just kind of got it in their head that they could make extra money with this one day.

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      2 hours ago

      It is insane. Even worse is we (taxpayers) gave them money to improve infrastructure and they put it in their pockets instead.

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      A lot of plans do. Especially with the major telecom networks like ATT and Verizon.

      Recently had a smaller company come in and install fiber. $85/mo for Gigabit service with no data cap. That’s pretty good compared to what I was paying. ATT only offered 500Mb/s and that was over $110 a month with a data cap, I want to say 800GB.

      Do not get reliable enough cell coverage for one of those mobile routers. But they aren’t any cheaper here since those are owned by the major telecoms.