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Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you | Data caps reflect "highly competitive environment," cable lobby tells FCC.
Data caps reflect “highly competitive environment,” cable lobby tells FCC.
The Federal Communications Commission's plan to investigate and potentially regulate data caps is all but dead now, after President-elect Donald Trump's announcement that he will promote Commissioner Brendan Carr to the chairmanship role. But they submitted their comments late last week, making the case that data caps are good for customers and that the FCC has no authority to regulate them—the same arguments that Carr made when he dissented from the vote to open an inquiry. NCTA—The Internet & Television Association, representing cable firms including Comcast and Charter, told the FCC that what ISPs call "usage-based pricing" expands options for consumers and promotes competition and network investment.
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