kinther@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoCable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we chargearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1550arrow-down16cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareripcord@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·11 months agoFor me, unless the 5g has truly unlimited usage, data caps (even slowdowns) would be a bigger deal than the latency. One provider in my area does 1Gbit truly unlimited, the other has 1Gbit but with 1.2TB caps (which we would probably hit each month)
minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoThat’s a good point as well, and people should likely check their own current cap as well, because a lot of people don’t realize they have a cap already.
For me, unless the 5g has truly unlimited usage, data caps (even slowdowns) would be a bigger deal than the latency.
One provider in my area does 1Gbit truly unlimited, the other has 1Gbit but with 1.2TB caps (which we would probably hit each month)
That’s a good point as well, and people should likely check their own current cap as well, because a lot of people don’t realize they have a cap already.