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I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

I’ve somewhat recently moved back to a very rural area of the Midwest. Small town. No stop lights. Biggest businesses other than the bars are Casey’s, Subway, and Dollar General.

And we have one ISP (not counting DSL) — Mediacom. When we first signed up, I had to go with the second service tier. But not because of speeds, but so I could have a reasonable 1 TB/mo data cap.

Lucky me, they increased the cap to 1.5 TB. 🙄

I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.

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[-] Ryan@programming.dev 58 points 1 year ago

In Thailand I'm getting 400Mbps upload and download with unlimited data.

It costs about 300฿/mo ≈ $8.7/mo

[-] GatoB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] GillyGumbo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Median income is $23k in Thailand. $31k in US. It definitely doesn't make up the difference.~~

Edit: Used Personal income for US and Household for Thailand. It actually doesn't bring the gap significantly closer.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Why are you using median household income for Thailand and median personal income for the US?

Median household income in the US is $71,000.

[-] GillyGumbo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Good call. I didn't even think to specify household vs personal. My mistake. I'll edit to fix.

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