>>>>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/canada-gets-first-bitter-dose-of-metered-internet-billing.ars
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>>>>Great. Wonder how long before that happens here. Already all the wireless carriers here claim to provide "unlimited internet" - but they don't, they call REALLY have limits (not sure why the feds let them advertise the way they do). Anyway I figure soon we'll get stiffed too.
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>>>Most unlimited adverts here will carry somewhere in very small letters. Subject to reasonable usage. A very vague term. Also heavy users are subject to throttling where their bandwith is reduced without actually being cut off.
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>>Sprint (one of the mobile carriers here) used to have wording like that - actually what they did is every month they would determine their top 0.2% bandwidth users & terminate their contracts and blackball them from the network.
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>I'm still grandfathered into an AT&T plan that actually *IS* unlimited (of course, their bandwith is a limit no matter what).

If you're like the others that I've known that fall into this category - bet you anything you're actually not anymore...or if you are it's not unlimited 3G and 4G. What T-Mobile does is once you pass their "limit" on their "unlimited" data plan, you're forced off of 3G and 4G and can only connect to EDGE. As far as t-mobile goes there are ways around that problem such as changing your phones APN to use the old voicestream settings :) - so I wonder if ATT is doing the throttle trick after you hit certain limit.


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>If I switch plans, I get the unlimited (limited) plan.
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>Amazing how much power the cell providers have over the government and the judiciary to be able to get away with this sh1t,