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On 16/01/10 17:36, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Grant Sewell wrote:So, does that mean that my 'unlimited Internet' on my Palm Pre is limited to 1GB/month?Very probably.. The unlimited means they're not limiting what you can do with it. Ecept they are - as you'll probably find that "streaming" is prohibited in their T&Cs... And they'll force-proxy all your web traffic.
Oh yes, this is another important question I can't find an answer to. (If mobile service providers had even half an ounce of sense I wouldn't need to ask this question). Are they going to block traffic to certain ports? I don't want to have to mess with tunneling SSH and the like via HTTP proxy. That's just silly.
They're outright liars - just like the broadband companies who lie about their unlimited data packages too, yet no-one has challenged them about it!
It's not so bad for broadband. Most operate an actual 'fair usage policy', where it's only a problem if you go nuts on p2p 24/7. Unlike mobile service providers, who just use 'fair usage' as a guise for false advertising.
And frankly, I have no problem with any ISPs free usage policy. Why? Because when you go over, they don't charge you a fortune or cut you off completely. They just slow your connection down. The fact that mobile service providers aren't doing this shows just how low their limits are.
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