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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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[-] vojel@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

In Germany we pay lots of money for 5G data volume. For me I got 20 Gigs for about 40 bucks, this is mostly Not a thing in the rest of Europe. But data plans on landlines are really dumb.

[-] clb92@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

In Denmark, I pay ~19€ (~$21) for 1000GB of mobile data (they call it 'unlimited', but the small text says they may cut you off at 1000GB). Of course, I rarely use more than 50GB a month on my phone.

[-] vojel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

This is what I am talking about … Most countries in Europe just gives you kinda unlimited data plans… look at this crap I rarely need mobile data because I work from home but if my landline has an interruption I can barely work 1 or 2 days with that if I tweak data consumption on my work laptop.

[-] ogeist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

weint auf deutsch

I'm moving to another provider next month to increase from 8GB@€30 to 15GB€25... Those are per month...

[-] PixeIOrange@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

25€ for 15G is also way too much. I now pay 5,99 for 7GB. (Also germany, monthly cancellable, sim.de [No advertisement])

You should look here for good prices.

[-] ogeist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Vielen Dank!, The problem is I need the Telekom Network otherwise I pay for nothing as the other ones won't have reception :(

[-] PixeIOrange@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can untick the other providers. I found this one for example.

[-] Sinnz@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Check out Vodafone if you’re younger than 28. I’m paying 22€/month with their Gigakombi for unlimited 5G.

[-] vojel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Way beyond that ;)

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