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Re: Broadband truth in advertising, redux
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:04:12 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: "Daniel O'Connor" <darius () dons net au> Date: February 7, 2010 7:26:32 PM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Broadband truth in advertising, redux Reply-To: darius () dons net au On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dave Farber wrote:
Just saw a TV ad for 'unlimited mobile broadband' via Cricket for $40/mo. Sounds awesome, right? But if you quickly scan the fine print during the commercial, Cricket's service, like everyone else, is capped at 5GB/mo. So again, what does "unlimited" mean for mobile broadband? You're not limited to WHEN you can connect to their service when in their service area? This is just the latest marketing scam for the wireless and broadband providers.....after all, it's perfectly legal to say "up to 50GB speeds" in big bold blinking letters but only deliver 15GB regularly, with periodic bursts to 40GB. But that is deemed 'truth' in advertising. Gotta love the lawyers.
ISP's in Australia used to do this, then they got smacked down by a govt. body and now it doesn't happen any more. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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