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> Easier to just eliminate any attempt at malicious compliance by interpreting 'reasonable' unreasonably. Smart. Telcos in The Netherlands in the past did some
by jorvi 2y ago
> Easier to just eliminate any attempt at malicious compliance by interpreting 'reasonable' unreasonably.
Smart. Telcos in The Netherlands in the past did something where, for unlimited cellular data service, they used a "Fair Use Policy". Which they took at 10x the 'average' (mean not median) data use.
Only problem was, this was early 2010's and there were still a lot of old people who weren't using data. They had 0MB subscriptions on their mobile subscription, which meant they technically had a data subscription although with gigantic costs per MB.
You can already see where this is going. All these subscriptions were added along in the calculation, which meant their mean fantasyland data usage came out at 1500MB and '''unlimited''' data usage was capped at 15GB, after which speeds would plummet to 64Kbps.
These days unlimited does mean unlimited, although you get a 20GB daily allotment, after which you have to send a refill text for every 2GB of data. Which of course can be scripted :). Although I don't see why you'd need north of 600GB of mobile data per month.
- immibis 2y agoHere in Germany, unlimited means unlimited. Or else. My high score is 14000GB.
- felurx 2y ago14TB of mobile data usage sounds fun, how did you do that?
- immibis 2y ago(1) buy a true unlimited data plan (2) download and upload as much as you can for a whole month? Make sure it's something useful though - iperf is cheating. Since it's true unlimited, they don't track usage. You can set your phone to a 1GB warning so the counter will always be displayed in your notifications.
- walthamstow 2y agoI may be wrong but I believe uploads don't contribute to data usage caps. This is based on my experience using eSIMs for travelling.
- sunaookami 2y agoIt does not? 1&1 has "unlimited" but after 50 GB you need to add 2 GB again in the web interface every time. I think Telekom has real "unlimited" but it costs like 100€ per month.