[News] Cox starts charging $50 extra per month for unlimited data

[StyM]

https://arstechnica.com/information-...nlimited-data/

Cox is now charging its customers $50 extra each month for unlimited data.

Cox also introduced a $30-per-month charge that adds 500GB to the standard 1TB data plan. Cox customers who go over the 1TB cap without having purchased extra or unlimited data pay a $10 charge for each additional 50GB. Naturally, "unused data does not roll over," Cox says.
Further Reading
Cox expands home Internet data caps, while CenturyLink abandons them

DSLReports reported Monday that the new $50 and $30 fees would be rolled out this week, and Cox confirmed it with details on its website. There's also an FAQ. "Our additional data plans are flexible to meet our customers' changing needs?you can add or remove an additional data plan as needed and will see a prorated charge on your bill," Cox said.

Cox's data cap charges mostly follow the model of Comcast, which also charges $10 overage fees and $50 extra per month for unlimited data. Comcast does not offer the $30-for-500GB option, however.

Cox, the third-largest cable company in the US after Comcast and Charter, has about 6 million residential and business customers in 18 states. It has rolled the data caps out on a city-by-city basis, so not all Cox customers face the caps yet.

Last month, we noted that Cox brought the overage fees to Arizona, Louisiana, Nevada, and Oklahoma. Cox was already enforcing data caps and overage fees in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Ohio.

[zanzabar]

it is good to see illegal fees and caps right after they were allowed a merger that they agreed specifically to not have caps or overages so they could get it done. on the bright side at least they are offering broad band even if it is going to be well over $100 for a basic plan.

[Charles Wirth]

In southern nevada
COX users have a grace period until October 8th and after that we will be billed $10 for every 50GB we go over.

[StAndrew]

I kicked Cox long ago. For 50 up and 50 down from Verizon, I pay as much as I used to for 15 down and 5 up. No data cap but Youtube is definitely throttled

[95blackz26]

since i moved to CT i went with cox over frontier since frontier offered much lower speeds for more money..supposedly my plan is suppose to get me up to 300down and 30up.. which is more like 30ish down according to speedtest..i'd complain about it but i can't even get them to fix the monthly charge for the modem rental which i bought outright.

ok fun fact if i use the speedtest thing on the site where i pay my bill it nets me..345 down 30up.. ok they must have fixed something. i used speed test and i was lucky to get a little over 30down before.