Basically you don't go with a provider that caps data usage.
BT tried it here in the UK about 5-6 years ago. 2GB a month or you get a fucking huge bill for any extra you use. Unsurprisingly it wasn't popular and BT lost a lot of loyal customers (those idiots who've always just used their phone company for everything else and never shopped around.... who one day woke up).
America used to be a country we were really jealous of in the UK, REALLY jealous of. You guys all had faster connections than us as we were slower to get out of the antiquated dial-up system...but now I know people who pay $150 a month for internet there!
Seriously?! Over $100 a month for internet? I think I was paying $50 with BT (without a cap) and that was considered to be expensive. In fact if you shop around, you can find $5 a month + $23ish line rental here.
Net neutrality is important, I hope anyone trying to cap data usage or any attempts to censor sites has their company plunge into bankruptcy... and should they all start doing it? I'm sure that just paves the way for a new one that won't.
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