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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharter Waves the White Flag on Data Caps as Trump Leaves the Building
https://gizmodo.com/charter-waves-the-white-flag-on-data-caps-as-trump-leav-1846094265Mere days before Donald Trumps helicopter shrank into the skies, we got a promising early indication that telecom companies hog-wild joyride under Trumps FCC is coming to an end. Last week, Charter Communications, the company behind Spectrum, withdrew its petition to impose data caps: basically its attempt to restrict customers internet usage in order to force them to spend more money. The FCC announced yesterday that Charter had withdrawn its petition, which it filed in June, just a few months into the pandemic.
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In a statement emailed to Gizmodo, Charter explained that the timing had only to do with the pandemic. In light of the ongoing severity of the global pandemic and its effects on our customers, we want to offer them the assurance that they will continue to benefit from unlimited access to broadband and the accompanying financial certainty it provides during these trying times, it said, and therefore have withdrawn our petition.
This is a heel-turn from Charters previous position that the pandemic should have no bearing on a decision to allow it to impose data caps, namely because Charter has waived fees and increased pay for front line workers. An FCC filing literally included the header: Charter Has Provided Substantial Assistance to Subscribers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Which Provides No Justification for Continuing the Conditions.
Its all but certain that Charter wouldve had a better shot at getting data caps under Chairman Pai, who summed himself up early in his term as Chairman with a casual crack about himself as a Verizon puppet and then he lived up to the legend.
This is a heel-turn from Charters previous position that the pandemic should have no bearing on a decision to allow it to impose data caps, namely because Charter has waived fees and increased pay for front line workers. An FCC filing literally included the header: Charter Has Provided Substantial Assistance to Subscribers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Which Provides No Justification for Continuing the Conditions.
Its all but certain that Charter wouldve had a better shot at getting data caps under Chairman Pai, who summed himself up early in his term as Chairman with a casual crack about himself as a Verizon puppet and then he lived up to the legend.
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Charter Waves the White Flag on Data Caps as Trump Leaves the Building (Original Post)
dogknob
Jan 2021
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Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)1. I would eschew internet service altogether
if Charter / Spectrum was the only choice.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)2. Gesundheit!
It's either Spectrum or AT&T where I live... and they don't compete with their rates.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)3. I have the same choices. The only good thing I can say about Spectrum
is they're not as terrible as AT&T.
Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)4. That's the case in many locales
Im fortunate to have an independent local provider with wide pipes and affordable rates.