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Frontier Has No Plans For Data Caps As They're Not Necessary, Says CEO (consumerist.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the overage-fees dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Frontier's CEO Dan McCarthy has said at an investors conference that the company has no plans to institute data caps that squeeze overage fees from data-hungry customers, yet. "The nice part of technology and what has happened is that transport costs continue to decline," he explained. "We have not really started or have any intent about initiatives on usage based pricing," said McCarthy. "We want to make sure our products meet the needs of customers for what they want to do and it does not inhibit them or force them to make decisions on how they want to use the product." He did note that data caps could someday come into play: "There may be a time when usage-based pricing is the right solution for the market, but I really don't see that as a path the market is taking at this point in time." The gist of what McCarthy is saying as noted via Ars Technica is that data caps are a business decision, not a network necessity.

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  1. Who is Dan McCarthy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    David Braben is CEO of Frontier.

    1. Re: Who is Dan McCarthy? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Informative

      I think GP was referring to this

      The summary should have mentioned that the company is Frontier Communications. It should have also mentioned that nearly all of their customers are on DSL. It is easy to offer no data caps when your customers are sucking data through a narrow straw and aren't going to get much anyway.

  2. Everybody hears what they want to hear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The users hear "caps are unnecessary". The investors hear "there will be caps when the market is ready to pay more". Everybody's happy. Good CEO.