It is proposed that internet service providers (ISP) with imposed data caps be required to increase thresholds annually, at no additional cost to consumers, to reflect the growing requirements by commonly used web based services.
While normal bandwidth requirements have increased, largely outside the control of consumers, some ISPs have failed to incrementally increase caps. While it is within their right to place caps, doing so without regard to growing normal usage bandwidth requirements represents unfair business practices by what are largely oligopolistic firms.
As a potential solution, ISPs imposing caps should be required to survey all consumers annually by speed tier, and increase caps so as to impact only the top 1% of each tier.