6/30/2020 = "end of data caps for ISP and/or mobile phone svc providers?" (comcast, streaming)

[tdredi]

Not sure if you all are aware of this...but probably by the time you read this, i.e. 11.59pm, 30 June 2020, all major isps and mobile phone service providers will no longer have 'unlimited data' due to covid19. Is this true.....but yet still the # of cases of covid19 is on the rise....again?


Can anyone shed some light on this?

[thecoalman]

Wasn't aware of this but they lifted the caps and are reinstating them. I have no cap on my Comcast account and if they did I wouldn't exceed it. Comcast does have them is some areas of 1TB, that's substantial unless you were watching a lot of 4K video. I'm using about 400GB perm month and I watch at least 4 hours of streaming video each day... If you had two or three people in the household using streaming video service you might hit limit.

[ihatetodust]

Check with your provider . . .

[tdredi]

i read about the end of the data caps about 2 or 3 weeks ago....did what I did and downloaded as appropriate. I am watching what/how i download....stream on youtube on the computer at a viewable/decent 480 resolution....

[markjames68]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

Wasn't aware of this but they lifted the caps and are reinstating them. I have no cap on my Comcast account and if they did I wouldn't exceed it. Comcast does have them is some areas of 1TB, that's substantial unless you were watching a lot of 4K video. I'm using about 400GB perm month and I watch at least 4 hours of streaming video each day... If you had two or three people in the household using streaming video service you might hit limit.

My house is doing 800GB+ a month, sometimes more. Streaming and the kids downloading games are the major factors.