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Here in the UK, you can PAY to have unlimited and even that has abuse clauses.
by awjr 11y ago
Here in the UK, you can PAY to have unlimited and even that has abuse clauses.
- Ntrails 11y agoMy originial unlimited iPhone 3g connection had abuse clauses. Nobody cared when I used tethering to download 20gigs of steam games overnight - but if I was perma torrenting they might have done. The contractual limits give the company a legal out to deal with use that starts to impact other customers, they are not commonly enforced unless they are looking into a complaint to slow internet and your usage comes up as anomalous and potentially contributory (according to a friend at an ISP at least).
- underlines 11y agoSo glad that all Swiss providers, mobile as well as dsl, have no fair usage or capping for their unlimited plans. Download or upload 2TB via torrent? - No one cares A friend of mine who works at Swisscom (no. 1 provider here) said they were forced by their software to enter an upper limit, so they just entered the max allowed length of that integer number.
- anon1385 11y agoI got throttled to dialup speeds for a month in ~2007 by my UK ISP (Demon) for downloading over 60gb in a month. The small print mentioned an abuse clause but didn't specify what the actual automatic hard cutoff was. I was very pissed off at the time. Looking back, the funniest thing about it was that I ended up having an argument with one of the support people on a broadband forum and they were arguing that only pirates would ever need more than 60gb and that internet TV was never going to take off because the BBC iPlayer trial hadn't worked well in their browser. These days there are UK ISPs with their own 4K TV channels.