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| Thread ID: 139797 | 2015-06-30 01:23:00 | Why so many "Unlimited" fibre broadband plans ? | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1403926 | 2015-06-30 01:23:00 | I am amazed at the number of "unlimited" UFB adverts on the tv and around the place. Are they legal? Are they trying to suck people in? How can they be cheaper than a fixed amount of data? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1403927 | 2015-06-30 01:32:00 | I am amazed at the number of "unlimited" UFB adverts on the tv and around the place. Are they legal? Are they trying to suck people in? How can they be cheaper than a fixed amount of data? I'd guess that they all throttle, hence the cheaper price. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1403928 | 2015-06-30 02:12:00 | Exactly. Remember Go Large and Big Time? Remember the complaints many had about speed issues? That's why the unlimited plans are cheaper. I don't see why it wouldn't be legal, all the conditions would be explained in the fine print stating that you can't complain if it slows down to dial-up speed. A true unlimited plan without throttling\shaping wouldn't be so cheap. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1403929 | 2015-06-30 02:19:00 | More often than not there is no shaping or throttling now days. Spark don't, Snap don't, Vodafone don't, BigPipe don't etc | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1403930 | 2015-06-30 02:42:00 | Few if any of the major ISPs throttle or shape their unlimited plans. How are they in any way not legal? They are a flat rate charge regardless of usage. The data cost is a relatively low proportional component of the cost of delivering the service to the average user. Just like there's tons of unlimited calls/texts mobile plans now. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1403931 | 2015-06-30 03:20:00 | Wish they would do unlimited adsl2 plans | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1403932 | 2015-06-30 03:57:00 | Wish they would do unlimited adsl2 plans They do... Or at least Telecom have unlimited plans for ADSL, VDSL and Fibre. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1403933 | 2015-06-30 04:09:00 | Wish they would do unlimited adsl2 plans Most major ISPs do. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1403934 | 2015-06-30 04:34:00 | If they're saying they don't throttle or shape it, it's either complete BS or they're allowing a complete and utter free-for-all which would likely give you a *worse* position... Coz they're *going* to be oversubscribing their bandwidth to a certain degree for sure! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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