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When Is Unlimited Quite Limited?
from the truth-in-advertising? dept
Last year there was a lot of attention to Comcast's "unlimited" cable modem service that had some very real limits, even if Comcast won't tell you what they are. Despite calls for Comcast to change that policy, they've kept at it. It seems that AT&T Wireless is taking a similar approach. Their recently announced Mobile Internet Unlimited PDA Plan actually appears to have some very real limits. The fine print points out that if you use over 100 MB in two consecutive months, they'll shift you to a much more expensive plan. 100 MB is not very much at all, and it's hardly "unlimited." It seems like that's false advertising.
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Nowadays time-limited access plans are pretty much unheard-of, and ISPs need to catch a clue that consumers are getting the odd notion that the term "unlimited" means "without any limits."
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I would like to know where these supposed comcast limits are. I've been known to download ten gigs at a time during peak hours, and not had any trouble. So I actually called Comcast about this. They said that the only time they will ever turn off a connection or block anything is when people are running FTP servers with warez or something like that. They said "It sounds like you're not getting the whole story here." Their words. Not mine.
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