I like how everything people ACTUALLY bother to use is rate/time/bandwidth limited, even though it might have been unlimited before (most mobile plans were unlimited and now the GB limits are going down every year, most cable/DSL plans were unlimited and now are becoming capped...) whereas things DON 'T use as much anymore went from expensive (remember $0.20/min calls and SMS) to free/unlimited/thrown. Hm...

Is this "Flexible Data Option" supposed to be a joke?

Reduce your data cap 98.3% (300 GB to 5 GB) for a 12.5% ($5) bill reduction, but you forfeit the bill reduction if you go over the cap and pay an additional $1/GB for overages.

That's worse than a cellular data plan.

Why would you expect your almost-monopoly cable provider to be better than your almost-duopoly wireless provider?

(depending on location)

No, it is not a joke. See the earlier discussion for elaboration.

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My comment was apparently moved.. this was very confusing. Wish there were notifications for this type of thing ;)

"Comments moved to..." means that your comment, which used to be here in a duplicate thread, has been moved into the main thread on the same story. That's HN's current way of merging threads. We don't do it without reporting that we did it.

Now I understand. Thanks for the info!

You're welcome!

The ways of HN tend to be laconic. If you're ever confused again, just email hn@ycombinator.com. Easy questions usually get quick replies; harder ones take longer.

further reasons to do everything you can to not support this company.