Data caps coming for Internet. What is Trump going to do with his FCC chair? Charter tries to convince FCC that broadband customers want data caps Jon Brodkin 08/11/2020 2:55 pm "So we'll pay for how much intetnwt we use? This will seriously hurt citizen research and limit who can afford to see what." Charter Communications has claimed to the Federal Communications Commission that broadband users enjoy having Internet plans with data caps, in a filing arguing that Charter should be allowed to impose caps on its Spectrum Internet service starting next year. Charter isn't currently allowed to impose data caps because of conditions the FCC placed on its 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable. The data-cap condition is scheduled to expire on May 18, 2023, but Charter in June petitioned the FCC to let the condition expire two years early, in May 2021. More here: https://arstechnica-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/charter-tries-to-convince-fcc-that-broadband-customers-want-data-caps/?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&amp=1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Ftech-policy%2F2020%2F08%2Fcharter-tries-to-convince-fcc-that-broadband-customers-want-data-caps%2F