Re:AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimi...
by JohnFen on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:25PM
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> Can a service ever offer unlimited data when there is a hard cap on the amount you could download 24/7?
No, not honestly.
There is a natural "hard cap", though. If you're paying for a certain speed, then the natural limit would be however much data you can pump at that speed over a set period of time.
I think it would be fair to call that "unlimited", in the sense that the service provider would not be imposing an artificial lower limit from what physics allows.
If a service provider isn't allowing that, then it's hard to see how they can characterize a service as "unlimited" without it being an outright lie.
No, not honestly.
There is a natural "hard cap", though. If you're paying for a certain speed, then the natural limit would be however much data you can pump at that speed over a set period of time.
I think it would be fair to call that "unlimited", in the sense that the service provider would not be imposing an artificial lower limit from what physics allows.
If a service provider isn't allowing that, then it's hard to see how they can characterize a service as "unlimited" without it being an outright lie.