The US government is about to approve Charter’s bid for Time Warner Cable, and like similar mega-mergers in recent history, it’s coming with plenty of strings attached. One of those strings is a prohibition on data caps, which have been a subject of frustration for thousands of broadband customers over the past year. But the FCC has been pretty quiet about them so far — until today, when it revealed a combined Charter / Time Warner Cable won’t be allowed to impose them for seven years.
Source: The FCC just signaled war against data caps | The Verge