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T-Mobile illegally imposed 50GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says: Law requires 25Mbps home Internet. T-Mobile lowers speed to 600Kbps after 50GB cap. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 10 hours ago

Well yeah, but there are different kinds of oversubscription. There's the one that makes still sense, because you only run into bandwidth issues on special occasions or short periods during the times with the heaviest loads, and there's the other that is powered by greed and leads to a permanent lack of bandwidth.