[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege

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I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

I’ve somewhat recently moved back to a very rural area of the Midwest. Small town. No stop lights. Biggest businesses other than the bars are Casey’s, Subway, and Dollar General.

And we have one ISP (not counting DSL) — Mediacom. When we first signed up, I had to go with the second service tier. But not because of speeds, but so I could have a reasonable 1 TB/mo data cap.

Lucky me, they increased the cap to 1.5 TB. 🙄

I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.

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$70? In Australia I pay $85 for 75/20 unlimited.

In Sweden I pay $23 for 100/100 unlimited. My phone even has 100 down unlimited for $30/month

Fellow Swede here; may I please ask what mobile operator you use? I pay around $25 for 16 gigabytes from Vimla

Tele2. I was able to get the price reduced by calling them and asking them for an upgrade.