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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by Johnny555 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @06:15PM (#17814318)
Is Verizon not a partial victim for having an unreasonable customer that thinks $39/mo is sufficient for their mission critical communications bottleneck?

I think this goes back to the "don't sell an unlimited plan if you're going to insist on limits". Verizon didn't have to call it an unlimited plan, they chose to.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by kodablah on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:12PM (#17814723)
> Verizon didn't have to call it an unlimited plan, they chose to

They could have just chosen not to compete in a market with unregulated definitions. You are improperly hating the player and not the game as though it's reasonable for them to not use definitions their competitors use when competing.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by vilmosi on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:37PM (#17814866)
> They could have just chosen not to compete in a market with unregulated definitions.

I don't think it's about regulating words. If you promise to sell a blue dog but sell a green dog, I don't expect a regulation saying blue has to be blue.

It's just false advertisement.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by jessaustin on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @08:14AM (#17818115)
Since VZN and ATT hire and fire all the people who write those regulations, hating them is hating the game.
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