Government Criticizes Cable Companies For Cashing In On Data Caps

Does anyone think big cable companies give a crap about the government criticizing them?

A growing number of cable companies are implementing data caps (sorry — "data thresholds"), which put limits on how much data a subscriber could use before facing penalties ranging from warning messages to throttled speeds to overage fees. A new report from the federal Government Accountability Office says that lack of competition in the broadband market could result in these caps being implemented with no one benefiting other than cable companies’ bottom lines.

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