On a consumer, not high-tier plan? It's a standard in close to every country. Where is that not the case? (I assume cable here as "any non mobile" rather than actual cable tv internet provider)
You can find a non-capped (at least in theory) plan everywhere if you pay enough of course.
I cannot find a single capped broadband package here in Ireland (only mobile or satellite has a cap). I've also travelled throughout the EU and have not encountered anyone with a broadband data cap. You can get consumer 1 gbps for 25-55€/month in many towns in Ireland, at that point there's hardly any need for differentiating between high and low tier.
It is actually unlimited? Several companies in the United States offer "unlimited data" but throttle speeds after you use 50 GB~ so much that it is basically unusable.
Unlimited has to be unlimited by law. After 10gb of usage a day, you need to text a number (for free) to get a few more gb, and so on. That's just there to prevent flooding the network too much.
From what I have heard it depends on the mobile provider. Some have daily limit around 10+ GB. But that seems quite reasonable.
I have monthly 10GB 4G for my phone and I have never hit it.
I've heard stories after a screw up the mobile provider gave unlimited 4G for a year and the guy used it as his internet at his home.
a cap on speed translates to a data cap per month. could you give an example of say your speed cap?
lets say a month is 30 days, a day 24 hours, an hour 3600 seconds, then a month is 2.592 Ms.
so an "unlimited" plan at say
1Gbps is actually always upper limited at 2592 Tb (bit) per month or 324 TB (byte) per month
I think governments should ban the "unlimited" names and force the ISP's to simply state actual limits or variable limit calculations if dependent on congestion. Here in belgium we have instead some vague "reasonable usage" policy...
You can find a non-capped (at least in theory) plan everywhere if you pay enough of course.