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I really think it should be the user's responsibility to figure out the details, as long as no effort is made to cheat on the provider's part. Market efficiency

I really think it should be the user's responsibility to figure out the details, as long as no effort is made to cheat on the provider's part. Market efficiency will end up dictating the progress in the end anyway. Having laws like this just makes the services more expensive overall, and does no good to the majority of people. How many people who don't at least have a basic understanding of 4G transmission speeds will know what a megabit or megabyte is anyway? Even in an university setting (which should represent a highly biased group of overall educated people), the majority of students just know basic facts like "my song is 6mb". But hey! On the bright side, creating useless jobs will add to our GDP. Props to modern economics.

catch23 15y ago
Why should people be responsible for knowing the difference between Sprint's 4G network and AT&T's 4G network? The speeds are actually vastly different. This problem existed back in the days when monitor manufacturers liked to "round up" the diagonal length of the monitors and put the actual viewing size in fine print. Some manufacturers would add 3 inches to the actual size of the monitor, just so that they'd "beat out" the competition.
pavel_lishin 15y ago
> as long as no effort is made to cheat on the provider's part. Isn't this precisely what this law is trying to guarantee? How is false advertisement not cheating?