Cox Expands 1TB Data Cap to More Territories

i am on suddenlink, uograded to the 200mb service for $10 more a month and have no data cap at all now
 
Seems like most of the major ISP's are pulling this nonsense now. Was not happy when Comcast rolled out the 1TB cap earlier this year as well (started applying to my account in March or something like that).
 
Nice. I got a 1terabyte cap in December along with a $5 price increase (with no speed increase of any kind) for no reason other than a Christmas fuck you from Comcast. I don't get the need for the cap either. If 98% of the customers won't hit it then then why institute a cap in the first place? Obviously it's not a problem. Are they downloading 500 petabytes a month? I can tell you for certain I've never had slowdowns on my connection during peak hours before the caps were put in place so why the need for them now?
 
Pure moneygrab. How else does a company fund the C-level execs' coke, hooker and Dom Perignon habits?
 
DeathFromBelow said:
Just got this in my Email:

https://image.************/kv072k/Untitled.png

Thanks Trump! Thanks Republicans!
Click to expand...



So you should sue Cox for breach of contract. If this was already a limit included in your current plan and they weren't enforcing it, then they were not meeting their obligations under the contract. As a result you have become accustomed to internet use practices that Cox never should have allowed you to develop and now you are at risk of incurring damaging charges because Cox failed to meet their contractual obligations to monitor and control your usage patterns.

Cox has become an internet dealer getting their customers hooked on high data usage and then putting the squeeze on them now that their usage habits are well established and difficult to break.
 
bugleyman said:
So if it's not a problem for YOU, then it's not a problem?

Well, at least you own it. :p
Click to expand...


I don't recall having to be responsible for your problems. Why do you feel that just because you have a problem, everyone else needs to stand up and back you?

Everyone makes their own deals in this world. I live with mine. You can live with your own :cool:
 
I've been with Cox for 20 years, from the first neighborhood in Phoenix. I hit 886GB last month without even trying. Netflix, Amazon, and Steam. Oh my. Pisses me off that it only 1TB.

grrr. No 4K tv in my future!
 
They're already in process over in the Portland area. Not where I'd expect them to start, but I just want it to hit me ASAP



alxlwson said:
True. I highly doubt they would implement something like this in Kentucky though. Hell, the state has already sued them over some other stuff, so I don't think they would dare. Google is already knocking on the doors of Lexington and Louisville.
Click to expand...
 
i just got that Cox email too, good thing the Steam summer sale is on now, just bought a load of games. I'll download them all now before the overage charges kick in. Shitheads.
 
Why so fucking expensive at 200$ the next TB?, I mean if the first TB costs say 80$ depending on speed, and that one alone includes the fixed costs they need to cover, how the fuck does the next TB costs 200$?
isn't THAT an issue for a utility as such these? how is that OK? I mean if you use more than a TB a month, you are better off with 2 connections!
 
I chatted up Cox support about 1.5 weeks ago (here in Las Vegas) to clarify the status of this hard cap going into effect and was told that people are in a 'grace period' until October 8th and on that date the hard cap will actually take effect. Considering that I share a connection with a neighbor to save us both some money (it's under his name officially) I told him about all this new policy going to happen and we both agreed to basically leech whatever the hell we damned well want through the next ~2.5 months (as me chatting with Cox, that is) without giving a shit about the 1GB soft cap that exists now.

I'm not a data hoarder like some folks, not even close, but I have acquired some things I've been holding off on getting and so far this month, about 11 days into this month's cycle I think we're at ~730GB of usage which is something that usually doesn't happen till around 25 days into a monthly cycle. Basically we've both taken the DILLIGAF attitude for the next 75 days or so. Considering we've been sharing this connection for about 4 years now and only gone over the soft cap like twice, fuck it, time to leech our asses off while we can do it 'gracefully' to paraphrase and rip off Cox's own terminology. :)

Costs them so little to provide even 1TB of bandwidth now, probably like $30-35 tops if even that much and the $85+ he's paying and I'm covering with $30 of that amount for my access, they've absolutely made a bundle off him/us over the ~4 years we've been using it. Cox and other ISPs aren't hurting, that's for damned sure. I'm not saying he or I or anyone else deserves more but, it's all about the value for the cost and honestly even with the infrastructure Cox has built out since the early 1970s when "cable TV" started taking off in the US what they offer for the price is still considerably high.

Other people around the world get vastly more data for what we Americans might literally call "a pittance" in terms of monthly cost, and American capitalism and greed continue to hurt us all and in some respects that's not a good thing for any of us but, FUCK YEAH MURICA, right? :p
 
Calavaro said:
Holy shit you are all getting bent over in the "free market".

I'm at 5 TB data transfer this month, and that's only from 2 of my devices... And the only thing my ISP does is to contact me sometimes and offer me more speed at no extra cost "since I download so much".
Click to expand...

There has not been a free market for ISPs for a long, long time.

All ROW access is controlled by government, they started this because the idea was some ISP would buy up all the land and refuse other ISPs to lay cable to customers and have a monopoly, even though that didn't happen, so all of this ROW is considered utility access. Now the government does exactly what they claimed the ISPs would do, they refuse to let others into a city/market, because once one ISP comes in, they make deals with the local government to be the only provider with access to these areas, and without access good luck laying cable to peoples homes. The pay off regulators (regulator capture), and offer packages to the city, such as free phone/internet/cable to all government buildings etc etc along with other kick backs. Read up on the trouble Google has had getting into locations with it's super cheap gigabit fiber because of this, and they have deep pockets, think about anyone else wanting to start something, they would not have a chance. Google paused it's fiber laying because of the issues, the cities they have made deals with for laying fiber will get fiber finished, but Google bought a wireless technology company right at the time they pulled back on this, because their plans on to go wireless for the "last mile" or to the home connection so they don't have to deal with the government control of that land and it's restrictions. Allowing them to go around this government enforced monopoly. They have already been sued for this idea as well, because other ISPs were claiming that Googles plan to lay fiber up to an area and then use telephone poles for mounting the antennas to should still count as a utility and should still be controlled/regulated as if it were running fiber to the home.

Showing how well the free market deals with monopoly, all you have to do is look at locations Google was able to force it's way into, those markets saw prices drop AND speeds up go up over night, even though the ISPs in those areas in some cases were claiming they were already network capped. You see, when a better and cheaper product comes to market, people will move to it and getting people to move to a lesser service at a higher price is almost impossible, but controlling or "capturing" a single regulator who gets kick backs is easy. Where people claim "free market failed" are often times the most regulated and controlled markets out there, just like we have here. People just don't understand the control and history going back all the way to POTS, and as such make incorrect assumptions on why things are the way they are.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top