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That's a tactic many businesses use. Oversubscribe services and profit from the limited use of the product. Punish the few who actually try to make full use of
by MichaelApproved 15y ago
That's a tactic many businesses use. Oversubscribe services and profit from the limited use of the product. Punish the few who actually try to make full use of the service.
See any cheap, shared hosting service. They'll promise unlimited so long as you don't try to take them up on that offer.
- cdr 15y agoCertainly not a new thing. Circa 1994 my dial-up ISP (with "unlimited" internet, the first one in the area) was oversubscribed like every dial-up ISP, they had an order of magnitude less connections available than paying customers. When I actually set the connection to stay up 24/7, they shut the account down within a week.
- trafficlight 15y agoThis is called "modem math".