This horizontal bar graph is titled “Data Transfer Cap for Home Internet Service.” For both the representative and open surveys, it shows the breakdown of answers to the question, “As far as you know, what is the monthly data transfer capacity that you receive in your home (i.e. what is indicated by your Internet service provider) This is sometimes referred to as a data cap, and it measures the maximum amount of data that you can send and receive over the Internet before you incur overage charges (frequently measured in gigabytes [GB])?” The 1,489 respondents in the representative survey who have home Internet answered as follows:
The 27,152 respondents in the open survey who have home Internet responded as follows:
Source: CRTC Broadband Survey, 2016