For better or worse, service providers have settled on using "unlimited(asterisk)" as a shorthand for 'We are selling you a shared resource that we provision ba

For better or worse, service providers have settled on using "unlimited(asterisk)" as a shorthand for 'We are selling you a shared resource that we provision based on the probabilities associated with a statistical-multiplexing framework modeled upon observations of actual customer usage. 95% of our customers will not be limited in any way. The other 5% of our customers will have to negotiate a separate solution to meet their needs.' As long as the actual limits of an 'unlimited(asterisk)' service are reasonably easy to discern prior to purchase and are only going to affect 0-5% of the users, I don't have a problem with the 'unlimited(asterisk)' shorthand. P.S. How do you get a literal asterisk to appear in a HN comment?