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Re:Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is do... by largespoon on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @08:30AM (#18014655)
The problem is that no consumer will buy internet advertised as conditionally rate limited.ISPs have no reason s to stop what works.
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Re:Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is do... by woah on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:30AM (#18016107)
It is false advertising though. I’m not sure why it’s allowed.
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Re:Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is do... by ti_ranger on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:09PM (#18016439)
> The problem is that no consumer will buy internet advertised as conditionally rate limited.ISPs have no reason s to stop what works.

And consumers have proved that they believed the first liars^H^H^H^H^Hmarketers who took this approach, so the rest, having tried the approach of being truthful and having lost market share, had to adopt the same approach ...

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