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They have switched from hard caps to soft caps. Your unlimited plan isn't really unlimited. It's all in the microprint, but after enough bandwidth is used, there will be repercussions (varies depending on provider).

You're right that the terms and conditions say there is a "fair usage" limit that may result in warnings from my ISP, which seems to be around 1 TB. However it looks to be largely unenforced, which is fortunate as with a gigabit connection you'd blow through it in about two hours.

Rural Netizen here. I can confirm that caps are very, very real. Even with more recent plans, the cap is still only 250GB. The same applies to AT&T's "Fixed Wireless" service, iirc. I'm not sure though which category that falls under since it's neither cellular, mobile, or satellite.

Still very common in Canada. Unlimited plans exist, but are expensive.