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Parsonsburg, MD
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 ·DIRECTV
| The FCC needs to look at this trend I realize this is a Canadian ISP here, but the FCC needs to look at these recent trends and expand their definition of what constitutes Broadband Service in the United States. Download and upload speeds are only part of what people buy broadband for, and ISPs are now setting caps that totally negate the value of higher tier services, all the while marketing the high speeds without revealing the low caps except in small print or hidden in the AUP/TOS.
If caps are going to exist, which it looks like they are, then I'd like to at least see a data cap under which an ISP's service CANNOT be advertised as Broadband, along with a minimum upload and download speeds.
I'd hate to see home broadband service degenerate into a clone of mobile phone access with ridiculous data caps and exorbitant overage fees. |
