Americans' Increasing Data Use Is on a Collision Course With Data Caps

Americans' Increasing Data Use Is on a Collision Course With Data Caps

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj9n3z/americans-increasing-data-use-is-on-a-collision-course-with-data-caps

This week, cable giant Comcast announced that American broadband consumers are using more data than ever.

The problem is that consumer trends like 4K video streaming will have customers increasingly running into ISP broadband usage caps and overage fees—costly restrictions experts say have no technical justification and are little more than glorified price hikes driven by a lack of meaningful broadband competition.