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Re:T-Mobile Announces Truly Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data by Karunamon on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @07:37AM (#4416831)
There's no need for snark, I'm pretty sure everyone knows what they mean by this.

Unlimited as in, yes, unmetered. Not "unlimited", with a 2.5pt footnote somewhere that says "Actually 5 gigs/mo"

Re:T-Mobile Announces Truly Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data by nodata on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @07:48AM (#4416860)
There is a need for snark. Claiming unlimited when it's not is ridiculous doublespeak. It's lying.

They need to stop doing this, it confuses non-technical people. Advertise the limit clearly. Make it a big number if they need to grab attention.

Re:T-Mobile Announces Truly Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data by Karunamon on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @07:50AM (#4416865)
..but in this case, there isn't one. FTA:

No data caps, speed limits, or bill shock

It's pretty explicit to there being no artificially imposed limits of any kind.

Re:T-Mobile Announces Truly Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data by nodata on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @08:08AM (#4416915)
It's often this way. Once they have the customers, they introduce the limit, as the GP pointed out: the infrastructure has limits. Once they hit them, unlimited will disappear just as always.
Re:T-Mobile Announces Truly Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data by Karunamon on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @08:10AM (#4416928)
Which they are free to do, as long as they let the people who bought unlimited keep it. Even freaking Verizon understands this (though they are making it slightly more painful).

If you buy the unlimited plan, you have every expectation to continue using it. It's still a net positive.

Re:T-Mobile Announces Truly Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data by jbrowning on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @08:13AM (#4416944)
As is claiming that HSPA+ is "4G". T-Mobile is not rolling out LTE until next year.

Source: http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/119703-t-mobile-annou...

Re:T-Mobile Announces Truly Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data by eli on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @08:18AM (#4416958)
The GSM governing body sided wi T-Mobile on that dispute. "4G" has been and continues to be nothing more than marketing speak.