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You know what I mean. yes we the HN crowd know all about throttling and stuff. What about the average Joe who sees the TV ad for "Unlimited data" and goes "wow
by codegeek 13y ago
You know what I mean. yes we the HN crowd know all about throttling and stuff. What about the average Joe who sees the TV ad for "Unlimited data" and goes "wow I can watch youtube all day".
For example, I have an "unlimited" data plan from TMobile. But they try to explain it to me like this "After 2GB usage, you will lose the 4G speed and it will be very slow". They even send me text messages with this crap once I reach a certain "limit" on my "unlimited" plan. It cracks me up.
- DanBC 13y agoI have an unlimited plaan from tmobile. I carefully checked with them what they meant. They meant unlimited reading of email or surfing, but if I used too much data (1GB per month) I wouldn't be able to watch YouTube or download large files. It's an aggressively stupid method to sell bandwidth. Now no one knows what's allowed or expected.
- XorNot 13y agoMan I wish you could get data plans like that in Australia. I have 1gb of data per month, but then I get overage charges which means in practice I can't use that data aggressively at all because of the risk I'll get massively screwed by going over the cap. I would love a data plan which just throttled me down to dial-up speeds or whatever. Still enough to use email/IM, and I'd be able to use my data cap more liberally. Which is of course, why it will never happen.