Broadband Data Caps: Worldwide View

With the announcement that AT&T will be ending its all you can eat broadband for DSL and U-Verse customers, I decided to take a look at how US broadband compares with the rest of the world.

And I mean beyond Canada.

I perused data  from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),  which tracks broadband metrics, among many other economic indicators, internationally.

The US now joins Iceland, Australia, Turkey, Ireland,  and the UK,  as a place where major ISPs market monthly pricing plans with overusage charges.

From a global perspective, it appears that AT&T’s plan is (gasp) generous: a ceiling of 150 GB  for DSL (250 GB for its fiber-based U-Verse) and $10 per 50 GB of additional usage.

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