Tag: data caps
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Roku Asks FCC to Deny Charter’s Data Cap Petition
Roku is asking the Federal Communications Commission to deny a request from Charter Communications to add data caps to its Spectrum broadband plans. The response comes roughly a month after we reported on Charter’s efforts to remove a ban on imposing data caps that was put in place as part of its 2016 merger with…
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What Does 1TB of Internet Data Really Get You?
You might not even realize it, but there’s a good chance your home internet has a data cap, or an amount of data that you’re limited to before you’re charged more. That sounds like something you should be aware of, right? The possibility of your internet bill being higher than you expect? In theory, sure.…
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How to Stay Under Your Data Cap When You Cut the Cord
Cutting the cord can be a great way to save money but many cable companies try to scare new cord cutters with data caps. These artificial caps on how much data you can use before you are charged extra can be intimidating to new cord cutters. The good news is you don’t need to worry:…
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Cable TV is Trying to Scare Cord Cutters With Data Caps – We Explain Why You Shouldn’t Worry
One of the biggest questions we get from new cord cutters is, ‘can you live with a data cap and still cut the cord? Or are cable TV companies trying to make it impossible to cut the cord by imposing data caps?’ This question has become more popular as many cable companies have been trying…
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Best of 2017: 5 Tips to Help You Stay Under Your Data Cap
As 2017 comes to an end I wanted to a moment to share a few of our best tips and tricks from 2017. Today we take a look at how to stay under your data cap. So please enjoy one of my favorite tips from 2017: Data caps have often been called an attack on…
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Cox is Rolling Out Data Caps in New Markets
Do you have Cox as your Internet service provider? If so it is likely you now have a data cap. This summer Cox announced that they are rolling out data caps in 13 states that place an arbitrary 1 TB limit on your data. If you go over the 1 TB limit you will be charged $10…
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Here Are 3 Tips to Help You Stay Under Your Data Cap
Data caps have become a growing concern for cord cutters as more Internet service providers start to add them. The good news is you don’t need to worry about data caps because it is possible to be a cord cutter and stay under data caps. #1 Turn Off Auto Play Auto Play is a great…
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Can Cord Cutters Live With 1TB Data Caps? We Take a Look…
This week Cox joined Comcast, AT&T, and others by adding a 1TB data cap to most of its plans (2TB for gigabyte subscribers). That raised a lot of questions with our readers about their ability to stream what they want with a 1TB data cap. So we are going to do our best to answer…
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Data Caps Are the Single Greatest Danger to Cord Cutting – Here Is How We Can Stop Them
The only thing that worries me right now about the future of cord cutting is data caps. 2017 is already off to a great start with a host of new streaming services on the horizon; Britbox, a new service offering British TV to Americans; and live TV services from Hulu and YouTube, to name a…
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3 Tips to Help You Stay Under Your Data Cap
Data caps have often been called an attack on cord cutters; however, don’t let them scare you away from becoming a cord cutter. You can be a cord cutter even if your Internet service provider (ISP) has a data cap. When my family became cord cutters we had a data cap from our DSL provider…