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Internet data is like Oreos, ISP claims while defending data caps

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Xordac Prime

Data cap cash. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)

If you were worried that the debate over Internet data caps would get bogged down in technical mumbo-jumbo, fear no more—it’s actually much simpler than you think.

Mediacom, a US cable company with a little over 1.1 million Internet subscribers in 22 states, has put the matter to rest by explaining to the Federal Communications Commission that its customers shouldn’t get unlimited data because using the Internet is just like eating Oreos.

“You have to pay extra for double-stuffed,” Mediacom Senior VP and General Counsel Joseph Young wrote in a filing with the FCC last week.

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Source: Ars Technica – Internet data is like Oreos, ISP claims while defending data caps

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