So First you Scam me, then Charge me More Money for Using the Net?

I recently discovered that Cox has been charging me for the $99 plan, every month, for the last 4 or 5 years. 

But then I notice that the modem they sent to me when signing up for this plan, doesn't even handle the speeds and that I'll have to get a different modem if I want to get the speeds that I'm paying for!

Okay, so that's, what, $15 per month for the last 48 months? That's $720 that they scammed out of me. But was that enough? Was that enough for Cox?

No, of course it wasn't. 

Then today I find this email that lowered the overall cap and charges $10 per 50GB of overage. That's 1 large, AAA game on Steam, mind you. Seriously. Or 5 low-tiered games. 

My family of 4 watches Netflix and YouTube and we play games. That's it. We don't pay for TV so I guess this is how Cox is punishing those cord cutters and how? Because Their TV programming (which uses the EXACT SAME lines) as anyone else is completely exempt from data usage. 

So, you have people who use WAAAY more bandwidth than my family (because of the TV), yet they pay nothing but the cost of their TV. But if you use Netflix and YouTube to stream those same shows - or many of the same - then by God you're gonna' pay for it. 

I want to point out to all of you, though, that this is a DIRECT result of Donald J Trump's FCC. Immediately upon entering the office, Trump appointed Ajit V. Pai who openly remarks about his hatred for net neutrality. Well, one of the first things Trump did was remove price caps (which will cost public schools, hospitals, colleges, small businesses a lot more money) and it paved the way for staggered pricing for your stuff. 

Cox's next move will most likely be to charge Netflix money for using its lines, so they'll be making money from BOTH you and those entertainment providers. 

Anti-Cox website? Don't worry -- it won't show up when you use Cox's internet. Anti-Trump website? Nah, they love Trump. He just made their shareholders rich. 

So Cox is scamming me - in a literal way with their lies and having sent me a modem for a package that I've ALWAYS had that doesn't even handle the top tier of speed, but then also by Trumping my internet with these completely bogus "Bandwidth" charges. 

It should be noted that South Koreans pay $20 per month for Gigabit internet which is currently being rolled out to every household in that country. Their internet is already faster than ours and they pay a fraction of what we pay and they have no data cap. 

Instead of investing in infrastructure, Cox decided to use all their profits to lobby the government, pay Trump some royalties, and get Ajit V. Pai to destroy the regulations put in place to protect the consumer from monopolistic companies. 

Shame on you, Cox. Shame on you.