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It’s funny that this all comes from a misunderstanding based on language differences. A data cap on your web use is pretty common in mobile phone providers. Wit
by vaalnl 9y ago
It’s funny that this all comes from a misunderstanding based on language differences. A data cap on your web use is pretty common in mobile phone providers. With these packages you can surpass the data cap (10gb) for select services (that you can select your own)..
Say you use a lot of spotify but you don’t surf that much this is ideal.
Nothing gets blocked or censored, it’s just that you can buy additional MB’s.
- skocznymroczny 9y agoDepends on how big is the data cap. Sure, if your package is 10GB, it's fine, but what if the data cap was 250 MB and you could surpass it with a "Netflix" package?
- mcv 9y agoAssuming that package is cheaper and the people who choose it are only interested in Netflix anyway, it's fine. What matters to me is that paying customers are treated as customers, and that we get to choose what we want, rather than ISPs secretly throttling stuff behind the scenes in order to coerce extra money out of Google and Netflix. I don't want to be ammo in their trade war.
- AlexandrB 9y ago> What matters to me is that paying customers are treated as customers, and that we get to choose what we want... I want more bandwidth for Mastodon. I don't see Mastodon in the "social networks" plan. So my options are: 1) pay more for "general" bandwidth, 2) use Twitter instead. This is the choice that customers will have to make when evaluating new internet services and it's not good for anyone trying to compete with Google/Facebook/Microsoft.
- Goronmon 9y agoSay you use a lot of spotify but you don’t surf that much this is ideal. What if you listen to a lot of Pandora?