I'm not entitled to unlimited bandwidth -- but it is what I expect. I'm one of the customers affected by this and it's quite irritating for one simple reason: The cost of my internet connection is going up by 62% (or up to 253%) with no change in service whatsoever.
I pay $80/mo for a 250Mbit connection, which would (at full usage) allow me to download up to 82TB/mo. So my $79 now covers 1.2% of what it previously did, and I'm forced to pay $129 to get the same thing.
Of course, that's assuming that I actually opt into the $50/mo for unlimited data. My general monthly usage is only about 750GB, so I probably won't do that. If I need to download a few TB of data (which I do every couple months), I'll be paying $10 per 50GB block over 1TB -- up to $200. So that $79 I was paying before? Woops, that's $279 for the month.
The fact that this is screwing few users doesn't change that they're screwing us.
I pay $80/mo for a 250Mbit connection, which would (at full usage) allow me to download up to 82TB/mo. So my $79 now covers 1.2% of what it previously did, and I'm forced to pay $129 to get the same thing.
Of course, that's assuming that I actually opt into the $50/mo for unlimited data. My general monthly usage is only about 750GB, so I probably won't do that. If I need to download a few TB of data (which I do every couple months), I'll be paying $10 per 50GB block over 1TB -- up to $200. So that $79 I was paying before? Woops, that's $279 for the month.
The fact that this is screwing few users doesn't change that they're screwing us.