Congratulations! You've managed to save a good amount of money each month by dropping your cable or satellite package and going to a cheaper, yet equally satisfying streaming service like Netflix! Unfortunately, that'll now cost you a significant amount of money in data overage fees. Sorry!

Sound familiar? If so, then you're one of the many people who are apparently realizing that in order to gain the most benefit from a data-hungry streaming services, you'll either have to dial back the quality or, worse, limit your normal Internet use so you don't run afoul of your provider's data cap. Stranger still, a person might subscribe to both streaming services and cable TV, and use the latter only as a stopgap way to be entertained until one's monthly limit resets and allows a person to binge the former.

That's just one case highlighted by a new report from The Wall Street Journal, which notes that millions of Americans are now having to ration their data use thanks to their providers' insistance on limiting the amount of data they can use with their standard Internet plans. And they don't seem to be very happy about these caps, either.

According to a FOIA request from The Wall Street Journal, there were nearly 8,000 complaints about data caps in the second half of 2015. That's not a very large amount compared to the millions of people dealing with these data caps, but it's a significant increase over the number of similar complaints for the first half of the year: a whopping 863. (Though it's unlikely that the Federal Communications Commission will see that many complaints in the first half of this year, since it has only received around 1,500 so far.)

It's possible that people are getting used to the capsor moving to a different provider (or service tier) that doesn't have them. However, large ISPs like Comcast have been toying around with data caps around the second half of last year, so the larger number of complaints does make sense.

As The Wall Street Journal notes, Comcast technically has a 250GB monthly limit for its broadband customers, but it doesn't really enforce it. The company is, however, testing out data caps for around 14 percent of its current customers300GB, though Comcast claims it's going to be increasing these at some future point. (Currently, Comcast is letting those involved with its data cap tests three free overages. Hit number four, though, and you'll get an extra 50GB of data automatically added to your cap for an extra $10.)

And it's not just Comcast exploring these caps. AT&T charges customers $10 for every 50GB of data one goes beyond one's limit, which can range from 300GB to 1TB per month depending on your plan. The company also recently introduced a new unlimited option that costs an extra $30 on top of your plan, but lets you watch as much Netflix as you want (or whatever your streaming service of choice happens to be).

Around two million or so Comcast users use more than 300GB each month, according to the companyand roughly half of its total bandwidth is used by just around ten percent of its customers.

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