"Unlimited data" means 2 gigs

[DrLeftover]

Under a new policy, AT&T has started cutting their data speeds as part of an attempt to manage data usage on its network.

So last month, AT&T throttled Trang's iPhone, slowing downloads by roughly 99 percent. That means a Web page that would normally take a second to load instead took almost two minutes.

http://news.yahoo.com/t-customers-surprised-unlimited-data-limit-080906861.html

 

[Evil Eye]

Can they do that?

Would they win in court?

 

[The Dragon Master]

^ Unless they have it in fine print and say something when you sign the plan or something. But to be honest it is false advertising. I know here an advert can be banned for false advertising.

 

[DrLeftover]

You mean if a politician lies in a commerical we can ban them?



Cool.



But back to the topic.



Have you ever read any of these contracts?



Have at it: http://www.wireless....tomer+Agreement

 

[Evil Eye]

You'd pass the limit simply by downloading that!

 

[DrLeftover]

Even Sprint throttles you if you use too much of their unlimited data.



http://mashable.com/2012/01/05/truly-unlimited-data-throttle/

 

[Evil Eye]

Advertising fraud?

 

[Rumia]

They tried to advertise something as unlimited here too. 3 months of unlimited minutes, text messages and data. All the companies got bagged by the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman for false advertising. Shouldn't the American equivalent (the FCC) do the same thing with these companies? Or does the companies got so much power the FCC can't do anything?



After NCO had complained the operators here stated in clear print on the front page the limits of their unlimited plans at 20,000 minutes, 20,000 texts and 20GB data or something, at least for my operator.