FCC Asked to Investigate Broadband Data Caps

In a letter sent to the FCC, consumer and small-business advocacy organizations are asking the commission to investigate bandwidth caps and metered pricing over anti-competitive practices. The organizations argue that caps stifle competition and are designed to keep competitors, such as Netflix off their networks as much as possible. According to the letters:

"These caps, which are now a fact of life for 56% of all broadband users, can perniciously undermine each of the goals set out by the Commission in the National Broadband Plan while at the same time stifling the competition and innovation that has established itself as the sine qua non of the Internet economy".

"The need to fully understand the nature of broadband caps is made all the more urgent by the recent decision by AT&T to break with past industry practice and convert its data cap into a revenue source," says the letter to the FCC, referring to high per-MB charges that carriers apply to any data over a customer's monthly limit.

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