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Cable ISPs compare data caps to food menus: Don’t make us offer unlimited soup | Data plans compared to a "tasting menu, a buffet, or unlimited soup and salad."


Data plans compared to a “tasting menu, a buffet, or unlimited soup and salad.”…

Cable broadband companies continue to insist that data caps are good for people with low incomes, pushing back against comments filed by consumer advocacy groups. The filing quoted a December 2023 report by nonprofit news organization Capital B about broadband access problems faced by Black Americans in rural areas. Comments filed last month by advocacy group Free Press said that some ISPs don't impose data caps because of competition from fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and fixed wireless services.

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