Centurylink to begin imposing 1TB cap on gigabit fiber service

https://www.reddit.com/r/centurylink/comments/jeyt90/data_caps_soon_to_be_on_ftth_connections/

by unlimitedint • 6 years ago

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ganoushoreilly2• 6 years ago

Yeah.. this is going to backfire quickly.

gigatexal3• 6 years ago

Why do American ISPs hate their subscribers?

pixl972• 6 years ago

Because subscribers have no other choices. Captive markets are fun to abuse.

duxup3• 6 years ago

Sadly not likely. Most of their customers have no other choices.

ganoushoreilly2• 6 years ago

Lets hope starlink lives up to the hype and brings more options!

rbecker• 6 years ago

So you can exhaust your monthly data in 2 hours and 14 minutes of fully using your connection?

pcdoodle• 6 years ago

That's exactly how I wanted to word it.

gostsamo2• 6 years ago

I live in Eastern Europe and I have gigabit ftth at the price of $12 per month. I guess that the US free market is just not as free. WTH.

teruakohatu2• 6 years ago

I live in New Zealand and I have a wide choice fo gigabit ISPs but only one city-owned physical network. I would pay $66 USD.

A free market certainly has an effect on price, but so does regulations, population density etc.

In my case I can only get gigabit due to huge government subsidies to build out the network, and for international outgoing data only two fiber optic cables (one to Australia, one to the USA).

gostsamo2• 6 years ago

The guys here are using the old telephony channels and infrastructure. The old state monopoly definitely helped building the infra once, but not sure what else is needed. Back in the nineties the government didn't have an idea what internet is and people just did it.

TBH, due to consolidation of the market, the big telecom customers are worse and we are no longer in the top 10 of the world for speed/price ranking, but if you find a small provider, they actually care to provide you with decent service. Especially for NZ, isn't the population density high enough? Always thought that two islands are not that much space for few million people.

duxup3• 6 years ago

The telecom market in the US is dominated by a handful of large companies, there is virtually no competition.

cbanek• 6 years ago

Cox has been doing this for years. I can't say I'm surprised. What recourse do consumers actually have? Appealing to the FCC?

mplewis• 6 years ago

Not under this administration.

D2187645• 6 years ago

Nobody has done more for the internet providers than this administration.

2Gkashmiri3• 6 years ago

https://www.jio.com/fiber/en-in/monthly-plans

India got on the gigabit bandwagon but sadly its still stupid. The highest plan shows 1Gbps with a whopping 6.6 tb data.

So around 13 hours of fully saturating your connection? How is that truly unlimited? They now call it "commercial usage policy". Wtf.

What is the point in offering internet and then fup ? I understand for lower plans to push you to higher plans but what about the highest plan?

perryizgr8• 6 years ago

It seems very reasonable to me. I have a 150Mbit connection with a 1TB cap, but I can hardly touch 400GB at worst. I have a 4k TV that is definitely streaming 4k/1080 content for 4-5 hours daily, our work laptops are always on, connected to VPN and almost always running a couple of RDPs. Phones are connected and syncing all pics and videos over to onedrive.

I'm out of ideas to increase my usage. The only way I can think of that would saturate a 1Gbit connection is if you are hosting websites and services from your home, which is definitely not the purpose for the Jio home connection.

2Gkashmiri3• 6 years ago

No. I am paying for a 100 Mbps as well as a 300 Mbps connection and my usage is around 800-1.5 depending on the number of users at home. my argument is, why put the limitation? why do they decide what purpose of a home connection is? BTW, i am running one home as well as an enterprise connection with jio but enterprise connection has more cost, less speed and less data. that makes no sense other than they are forcing me to pay more for same stuff.

besides, as a home user, if i am paying maximum "THEY" are offering, why the limitation? as world has already come to realize, data caps are total bs so why enforce them even on their highest plan?

Red_Leaves_Flyy• 6 years ago

You're probably streaming a majority 1080 content. 5 hours × 7GB/HR @ 4k × 30 days/mo is 1050GB.

Get an xbox one with a 500gb get and actively play the new cod, pubg, fortnite, destiny 2, forza horizons 4, forza motorsport 7, halo mcc, and due to the drive limits you can blow past your cap in one rotation, per month. Add in pc gaming and a switch, and a ps5 to play with your friends on different platforms and boom 2-10tb/mo easy.

I regularly blow past 1TB without even thinking about it. 10TB/mo will probably be a good new limit until 8K tvs breach the $1k mark.

syntaxing• 6 years ago

We really need new satellite ISPs (Starlink/Amazon Kuiper) or local WISP (Monkeybrain). I honestly think municipal ISP are the way to go. Unfortunately, it outlawed in over 20 states (which blows my mind).

MeinBlutIstBlau• 6 years ago

Why are these limits imposed on consumers and not the major players allowing consumers to waste data like that?

Like instagram does not need databases of 8MB images for everyones collage. Youtube doesn't need 4k even now for some dweeb doing a tech review.

If they forcefully throttled entities, which then trickled down to consumers, the ISPs wouldn't have to extort consumers to help pay for everyone else's selfish vanity.

wongarsu• 6 years ago

Or what if ISPs just charged what it takes to deliver internet without artificial limits, and then delivered just that? It's not like we don't know how to transfer vast amounts of data, or like we didn't predict the rise in traffic.

I'm not necessarily against having a cheaper plan with a traffic cap, and a more expensive plan that's unlimited. But just throttling data providers isn't the solution

happyjack2• 6 years ago

I live in a small rural town (30k people) that has a major research University. We have multiple fiber links due to the railroad and university, yet our ISPs are beyond shit. Unless you live in the "new" neighborhoods it's all old copper coax or old phone line DSL. No company is going to pay to put in the last mile of pipe for a town of this size. Anyway, it's about $40 / month with tax for 30 MB down and 5 up. Abysmal.

eppp• 6 years ago

That is not universally true. We just started a new ISP and built fiber to 1300 customers. It took government grants to make it possible but it is happening throughout the country. Local electric co-ops are building fiber at breakneck pace.

happyjack2• 6 years ago

Oh, I know it's not universally true. There are groups who are getting it done!

It's just not happening in my town, and many others.

Centurylink to begin imposing 1TB cap on gigabit fiber service

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