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"usage cap" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a limit on the usage of products or services. For example, "My internet provider has put a usage cap on my data plan."
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Since 2008, Comcast has had a data usage cap of 250GB for all its broadband plans.
Considering that YouTube and MySpace are in the mix we can hope that usage cap is actually fair.
On the other hand, if you seed a few clusters that are self-sufficient and keep usage high, then introduce it to others adjacent at a regular rate, you see steady growth, low churn, and a higher usage cap since far fewer people will have bounced off the product at the beginning.
But after roughly 13,000 customers found themselves unable to use their data services due to an arbitrary, unknown usage cap enacted by Verizon, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo fought back by saying that "when consumers are promised an 'unlimited' service, they do not expect the promise to be broken by hidden limitations".
Northwestel's best package in Iqaluit offers 5 mbps and a 50 gigabytes (GB) usage cap, all for a cool C$190 $1500) per month.
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Sooner or later, he says, operators will have to introduce more stringent usage caps, demand a premium for better service or charge by usage.
Many providers, wired and wireless, once offered a form of unlimited internet service, restricted only by often vaguely defined "excessive" usage caps.
The watered-down version of FCC's network-neutrality rules, currently winding their way through the legislative process, contain no language whatsoever about monthly usage caps, only about impermissible behaviour by cable firms and telecoms.
Another, related concern has to do with the emerging possibility of Internet usage caps.
Consumers were complaining on Amazon about things like Comcast's usage caps, overage fees, and Amazon's failure to disclose the usage caps existed, for example.
Earlier this year we reported that the usage caps were being squeezed by Google over time for Google Apps, from 200 users down to just 50.
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