American ISP flashes phantom bandwidth cap

[zatoicchi]

Yet another American ISP is toying with the idea of a ridiculously low bandwidth cap.

Last month, Frontier Online - a regional carrier serving 24 US states - quietly slipped new language into its terms of service that appeared to cap its roughly half a million broadband customers at a measly 5GB a month. That includes both uploads and downloads.

"Customers must comply with all Frontier network, bandwidth, data storage and usage limitations," reads the new T of S. "Frontier may suspend, terminate or apply additional charges to the Service if such usage exceeds a reasonable amount of usage. A reasonable amount of usage is defined as 5GB combined upload and download consumption during the course of a 30-day billing period."

But after complaints from countless customers and a swashbuckling protest site dubbed Stop The Cap!, Frontier now says that the new words in its terms of service mean absolutely nothing. With a brand new FAQ page dedicated to the 5GB cap, the company's fast talking marketers insist the cap doesn't really exist.

American ISP flashes phantom bandwidth cap | The Register

[Aurion]

damn,that Inet Service Industry is going down @ USA dont know why they just keep pushing it too hard on people,I mean we are civilized guys,we should not be doing that at all,let people do whateva they want

[anon]

Oh no, not again!

A 5GB cap combining DL and UL? You can just download that amount in a few hours.