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I completely agree. However, ISPs should not be allowed to advertise "unlimited" if that's not what they provide. On the other side of things, the tech community should stop getting angry every time an ISP attempts to actually charge for heavy usage.



It's the overly vague handwaviness and arbitrary enforcement that people are upset about.

This is like the all-you-can-eat buffet that changes the rules when a football team shows up.


Of course, but in other instances, the tech community gets upset at usage-based billing.

We want ISPs to stop advertising non-unlimited service as "unlimited". But the tech community seems to only accept the solution wherein unlimited service is provided, ignoring the other (IMO much better) solution wherein non-unlimited service is advertised as non-unlimited, and the non-unlimitedness is provided in a sane manner with usage-based billing rather than vague rules.

It's like the all-you-can-eat buffet that changes the rules when a football team shows up, but also everybody gets upset any time the buffet thinks about changing to an a la carte model.




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