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That’s why I was eager to try T-Mobile’s 5G wireless home broadband in 2021: it was cheaper and without data caps. (Sadly, my home just wasn’t close enough to the tower for sufficient ...
In Canada, 47.5 per cent – or 5.7 million – of all residential internet subscriptions in 2018 were for plans with unlimited monthly data, according to the latest data from the Canadian Radio ...
Broadband data caps are being investigated by the FCC to understand the impacts they have on consumers. Credit: Yuichiro Chino via Getty Images Are you one of the many American consumers who have ...
The CRTC’s annual Communications Monitoring Report for 2016, issued last week, gave weight to the importance of the data cap hearings. It revealed that the average amount of data downloaded by ...
This is especially important when it comes to low-income Canadians, who are priced out of plans with higher caps. A family whose data cap is just 20GB, or even 50GB, a month, is effectively shut out ...
Groups in the US and UK are copying our campaigns, and not the parts Open Media dreams up, the parts like #tellVicEverything that creative pro-internet [people] came up with after we raised the alarm.
Having failed to establish a two-tier Internet based on speed, ISPs now appear to be focused on an alternative two-tier approach based on data usage.
Watch the video of ‘Are You Facing Internet Data Caps? Comcast has imposed a data cap for all of its subscribers nationwide after testing the idea in a few dozen cities. Comcast was the first to ...
For home internet, unlimited usage was offered to all Bell Aliant customers in the Atlantic provinces. But data caps are your only option if you go with Cogeco in Quebec or Shaw in Alberta and B.C.
Broadband data caps will likely become more of a concern as you increase bandwidth-intensive activities, such as streaming TV shows and movies. Most of the data caps we’ve seen range from about ...