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Re:AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimi... by chooseaname on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:49PM (#21456539)
Yes. But wouldn't it be better to deal with that individual when it's necessary? Give everyone what they pay for and if someone abuses it, deal with that person.
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Re:AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimi... by Spivak on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:57PM (#21457173)
Hence the policy to throttle users that consume (comparatively) a lot of data. Typical metered data plans are 2GiB and throttling kicks in somewhere between 20 and 50GiB depending on the network.

Not good enough?

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Re:AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimi... by JohnFen on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:28PM (#21458011)
Not if they're advertising "unlimited" service.

In my view, the entire problem is that they want so badly to say "unlimited" while at the same time not allowing actual unlimited use.

The problem could be easily resolved at no cost -- all the companies have to do is stop using the word "unlimited".

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Re:AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimi... by derision on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:55PM (#21457141)
isn't that exactly what throttling is...
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