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Do any other internet providers have a usage cap? Suddenlink never notified my roommates and I that we were going over our internet usage limit (which I didn't really know existed) and now we're getting penalized for it. Is this just another way for them to make money or is this common with internet providers?
First of all, YES it is just a way for them to get more money out of you. This man right here:
He needs more money to buy more houses with lots of closets for his ever growing collections of skeletons. He was smart to throw it into place right before things like Netflix and Amazon started to cause internet usage to go up in the common home. He's just copying the bigger companies. Time Warner tried to implement this in Austin and the community raged so they had to pull back. Suddenlink just knows they can get away with it here so they do it.
Other places that cap include wireless carriers like Verizon ATT and T-Mobile, although TMobile's is a soft cap in that you are slowed down to crap speed when you reach the cap, and yes they do remove that for some customers or those that buy an ' unlimited ' data plan, as do Verizon and ATT for a price.
You can indeed get ' commercial ' internet from Suddenlink and it will not be at slow speeds. I have a commercial internet account only. No TV no phone, I pay a little over 80 bucks after tax and I had to sign a CONTRACT (2 yrs of 50 Mbps uncapped). But since they run a monopoly the contract does not scare me.
I am looking forward to the next thing they decide to limit, such as hours per month we are allowed to watch TV (for those that still pay for that from Suddenprix). As that is the same thing as all of a ' Sudden ' limiting the amount that we use the same internet we paid for before.
Suddenlink has a sweet deal going here and that is not going to change unless we either legally pave the way govern-mentally to create our own city supplied fiber or get Google or another substantial competitor's attention.