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> In Australia data caps are the norm, but you can get unlimited plans with certain ISPs. However, 1TB is a lot of data. To my knowledge there's not a single 1T
by the_mitsuhiko 10y ago
> In Australia data caps are the norm, but you can get unlimited plans with certain ISPs. However, 1TB is a lot of data. To my knowledge there's not a single 1TB plan available in Australia, it's assumed that even on the unlimited plans you're not going to be using that much.
You can easily see by comparison that data caps affect what people do on the internet. I'm consistently above 1TB of traffic a month with only two people in the household that also work from there. (That's on my mobile connection, I also have cable but that's used less and I only have around 100GB there).
Why so much data? I'm not even sure. A bunch of devices updating, streaming, large data files to transfer. Adds up quickly.
You can see this especially with mobile data where people see the caps regularly. In Germany the average mobile SIM uses 300MB a month. In Austria that number is multiple GB.