Monday, July 18, 2016

Data Caps on Internet are complete bullshit and anti-consumer

So I recently moved into a new house that did not have the ISP we had before. There were only two there, TWC and AT&T. Both pretty shit but one thing we noticed was that AT&T did not offer Unlimited data. What they offered was a 600GB monthly cap which is really low if you have a family.

Time Warner Cable did not have the cap but they were a little bit more expensive and their customer service is shit. So we essentially had to deal with paying more through overages or getting horrible customer service and more downtime.

We talked with AT&T Uverse and apparently you can get Unlimited if you add $30 to your bill. That's almost a 50% increase in your bill payment just so you can use your service that you pay for. Ridiculous. But even better, add $40 and we'll throw in cable with Unlimited Internet free!

We ended up going with the cable offer because it's a much better value than just Unlimited Data. But the fact that bundling with cable gives you unlimited makes me believe that they're just trying to push cable at the expense of Internet.

Oh, if you go over the cap it is $10 for every 50GB. Absolutely insane!

Example - http://ift.tt/29QDKF5



Submitted July 19, 2016 at 02:59AM by Deceptiveideas http://ift.tt/29VW0xd via TikTokTikk

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