Goodbye, unlimited internet. Another gift for the telecom companies.

By Fernando Brito, from brick

It's in an interview with Gilberto Kassab, Temer's Minister for Telecommunications: the unlimited fixed broadband you have at home will die out by the second half of the year. Once a certain usage limit is reached, the connection will be cut off.

That's what he says in an interview with Fernando Rodrigues on Poder360, without clarifying dates or the limits that will be set for what was previously unlimited, nor even what will be charged for usage exceeding those limits.

If the parameters for mobile internet are followed, it is certain that they will be prohibitive for most people and that there will be a lot of legal wrangling over how to apply the new rules to existing contracts, where there are no limits on usage.

It is clear that, as with cell phone service, those who buy larger packages will benefit, while individual users with fewer resources will have to pay not only exorbitant but also unpredictable prices charged by the telephone companies.

The lack of regulation has made the sector so crazy that I – and many other people – have two lines (some, three) in order to pay a little less.

Broadband in Brazil is so expensive that a huge percentage of Brazilians (from 44% in the Southeast to 68% in the North) don't have it due to price.

The Temer government really excels at the art of making itself unpopular.

The campaign #NoInternetLimit It's at the top of Twitter's charts.

And those who banged pots and pans against the government for not giving in to pressure from the television networks aren't uttering a peep.