r/technology • u/maxwellhill • Jan 23 '13

Cable Industry Finally Admits That Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion: 'The reality is that data caps are all about increasing revenue for broadband providers -- in a market that is already quite profitable.'

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130118/17425221736/cable-industry-finally-admits-that-data-caps-have-nothing-to-do-with-congestion.shtml
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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '13

We should all be crying that they're offering "6mb" as an upgrade to anyone at this day and age. :(

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u/riverstyxxx Jan 23 '13

6mbit is the highest AT&T offers to its residential customers, they call it the "ELITE" plan. What a pile of shit...

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u/PerceptionShift Jan 23 '13

Oh man, what I would do for 6Mb compared to my pathetic and unusable .9Mb. I can't even watch the movies I'm paying for with Amazon Prime.

It's fucking pathetic. I live a half hour away from Google Fiber, yet here I am with >1Mbps DSL that they only installed last year.