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Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC

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FCC docket on broadband data caps is filling up with comments from users who say they shouldn't have to pay overage charges for using their Internet service.

The docket has about 190 comments so far, nearly all from individual broadband customers.

Republican FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington last week argued that regulating data caps would be akin to mandating free coffee refills.

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semi-formal

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English

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65

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