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(I feel your pain, was on dialup a long time.)None exist from what I can tell. Support and sales denies the existence of any caps. Just stay away from the child porn and RIAA etc protected content. I've read the AUPs and other aggreements and try to keep up with the updates and I have not come across any language that states that there are limits to the amount of bandwidth one can consume. They do ask that you do not run full time servers, tech support and sales say it means don't do it in a commercial manner.
It did make the news when articles were posted about how the governer got the NY ISPs to cave and cut off the alt.* groups and whatever else they are no longer carrying. I doubt Verizon or anyone else gives a shit, it's less data for them to worry about, less bandwidth being consumed as a result. Newsgroup services have sucked from most ISPs anyway, whether it was a shitty selection of groups, censoring of the groups, craptastic retention times of two weeks or less, or in my experience a combination of most of those issues. It isn't all that newsworthy. What would be newsworthy in my opinion is if the private news providers (Giganews for example) were asked to start censoring or blocking access to groups.
if you think FIOS isnt taking off like a rocket, youre sadly mistaken. it's slow to upgtrade new areas, yes. but in areas where it's found, comcast feels major pressure. the fact that the hardware installed in the house being expensive is completely offset by the extremely low cost of the maintenance costs of FIOS compared to DSL. verizon is putting its entire internet and much of its financial future into FIOS, they want it to succeed more than most people realize. they want more areas covered and as soon as possible.
Looking at the Verizon FiOS map, it appears they're installing it around my village.
I think you misunderstood what I was saying if that was in fact your reference. Verizon in it's email to customers said that they would, as a provider of newsgroup services stop carrying certain groups. They went on to say that users were free to use their own private (paid-for) provider. I'm almost 98% sure that it's the same with the rest of the ISPs.
Had FIOS for a year here, and loving it so far. Don't know if 50/20 is justified, though, seeing how the only server that lets me max out what I have now is Microsoft.
