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Deutsche Telekom is currently offering 24 hours of real unlimited data for free in Germany at every World Cup game of the German soccer team. (Their usual plans
by arrrg 8y ago
Deutsche Telekom is currently offering 24 hours of real unlimited data for free in Germany at every World Cup game of the German soccer team. (Their usual plans offer single-digit GB data per month.)
I would expect that to be a near worst case scenario from a bandwidth perspective. Everyone all at once suddenly has unlimited data during roughly the same 24 hour window. Apparently their existing infrastructure is good enough to handle such a spike.
This is limited somewhat in that this is a manual process (you have to click a link on a website to get it and then click a link in the confirmation SMS), but still. I think they could offer unlimited data at a price well below what they are currently offering (€80 per month for unlimited data – actually that’s not so bad, only a couple months ago the situation was much worse).
- dx034 8y agoIt's actually a good test case. They get the marketing benefit and can also stress-test their systems to see how feasible unlimited plans would be.
- solarkraft 8y agoI would hope that this is really their goal - But I'm not too sure about it. I expect them to aim to only slightly surpass their competitors. Maybe this is actually to signal to them their capabilities?
- gsich 8y agoyou don't need a testcase for that. just ask the daughter company in Austria.