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The "unlimited data" is an interesting contrast and always makes me wonder "at how much speed?" I am more surprised that mobile plans are still charging by the

• chrismorgan 8mo ago
  Where I live, all five providers I’ve examined advertise their home broadband plans as unlimited, but four have a limit (mostly called a “fair use policy”) between 3.3 and 3.5 TB, after which they’ll be shaped to 1 Mbps. Suspiciously colludy. (The fifth: “These are unlimited plans for home use only. You can consume unlimited data at high speed. However, [we] may discontinue the data services in case of misuse, fraudulent, unauthorised or commercial use.”) At 50 Mbps, you can theoretically exhaust this in just over six days. At 1 Gbps, it takes less than eight hours. Once shaped—a month of 1 Mbps is less than 335 GB. So in practice all these unlimiteds boil down to less than 4TB/month.
  • Barbing 8mo ago
    Wish the FCC had listened to us when Comcast first introduced their first very high bandwidth cap in their first market. (Must’ve been more than a decade ago, maybe and a half.) We knew how bad it was in Canada.
• Nition 8mo ago
  From the screenshot it looks like he actually received "only" around 2TB of free mobile data.
• lxgr 8mo ago
  It's 64 kbps (hopefully) with quality of service, and very often still with per-minute billing paid to the receiving carrier, whether it runs over actual circuit-switched hardware or not.