Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?

lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 175 points –

Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? I understand bandwidth limits, but how can home internet get away with giving users all the data they can use, but cell phone providers can't?

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My home Internet charges extra when I use more than 1 TB per month. Not sure but I think it's metered both up and down.

I remember Comcast suddenly started enforcing a limit of about 1 TB some years ago when I had them. Realized it happened when I renewed my contract to get a lower price again for a promotional period. Apparently I agreed to a new contract or something that included the new limit. >:|

FCC is looking into that, I think it was during Trump's administration

I currently have that cap and wondering how I will be able to play MSFS2024 under these conditions. Absolute trash they get to enforce this.

Had the same thought, and a rep already told me I'm 200gb away. Let's hope some of the stuff is cached.

Just try to pnpy so flights at 30k ft or above so you don't have to load ground textures lol

damn, I share almost a TB/day.

Hopefully only Linux ISOs ^/s^

Nintendo roms

Wow.

How many nintendo roms are there?

switch roms range from 6-20GB each. plus SNES, full collection about 5gb.

Ah yes, switch games are not tiny small cartridges.

Gotta finish my "arcade" box-stick-raspberry one day ...

5GB you say? That's so incredibly cool actually.