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# Thank you, ISP!

**[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A Belgian blogger vents about his cable internet provider Telenet's heavily hyped marketing campaign that promised major upgrades to internet subscriptions. The actual change: upload speed bumped from 256Kbit to 512Kbit, while the 12GB monthly data cap and the steep price remain unchanged, which he and other forum commenters find underwhelming given how fast 12GB fills up at 10Mbps download speeds.

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