Most providers/teocos have a Fair Usage Policy in their Terms and Conditions. It will spell out the max amount you can use under their “unlimited” plan.
If you exceed that amount, usually they will throttle your speed to a crawl which is also stated in the T&C.
This type of shit drives me up the wall. I recall that Verizon has 3 different tiers of “unlimited data” which is all horseshit because “unlimited” means unlimited. I wish the FTC would grow some balls and go after companies falsely advertising like this.
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Most providers/teocos have a Fair Usage Policy in their Terms and Conditions. It will spell out the max amount you can use under their “unlimited” plan.
If you exceed that amount, usually they will throttle your speed to a crawl which is also stated in the T&C.
Yea, had my cell card account closed because I was torrenting with an “unlimited” plan that wasn’t so unlimited.
Argued with the management about what the word unlimited meant. This was years ago before they put that little asterisk on there.
This type of shit drives me up the wall. I recall that Verizon has 3 different tiers of “unlimited data” which is all horseshit because “unlimited” means unlimited. I wish the FTC would grow some balls and go after companies falsely advertising like this.