Conservative Group Fights Possible FCC Data Caps Ban

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2024 – A free-market organization is opposing a possible federal effort to regulate data caps by limiting or banning usage-based billing in consumer broadband plans.

Digital Liberty – a project of Americans for Tax Reform, a lobbying group for conservative causes  – asserted in comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission that data caps would foster competition among Internet Service Providers while lowering prices for consumers.

“While usage-based billing offers an abundance of benefits for both ISPs and American consumers, banning the practice would exact irreparable damage upon the broadband industry. Through universal access to unlimited data, ISPs would be stripped of the ability to bar high-level broadband users from monopolizing network resources," James Erwin, Executive Director of Digital Liberty, said in the Oct. 29 filing.