I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

I’ve somewhat recently moved back to a very rural area of the Midwest. Small town. No stop lights. Biggest businesses other than the bars are Casey’s, Subway, and Dollar General.

And we have one ISP (not counting DSL) — Mediacom. When we first signed up, I had to go with the second service tier. But not because of speeds, but so I could have a reasonable 1 TB/mo data cap.

Lucky me, they increased the cap to 1.5 TB. 🙄

I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.

    • GillyGumbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      193·
      1 year ago

      Median income is $23k in Thailand. $31k in US. It definitely doesn’t make up the difference.

      Edit: Used Personal income for US and Household for Thailand. It actually doesn’t bring the gap significantly closer.

      • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Why are you using median household income for Thailand and median personal income for the US?

        Median household income in the US is $71,000.

        • GillyGumbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Good call. I didn’t even think to specify household vs personal. My mistake. I’ll edit to fix.

    • Ryan@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Although I agree that people get paid less here, I highly doubt that it costs an ISP in the US 8x more to transfer data than an ISP in Thailand.

      I’m not really trying to argue that Thai internet is cheap, it’s that internet elsewhere is exorbitantly expensive.

    • duncesplayed@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      What kind of rube works in the same country they live in? I met a lot of WFH workers when I visited Thailand, and not a single one of them was working for a company in Thailand.