Why Are ISPs Still Advertising Limited Services As Unlimited? > Throttled Service

said by openbox9:

Isn't a throttled service still unlimited as long as you can pass traffic and use the service? While the marketing speak needs correcting, technically you still have, and are able to use, the service if you're throttled to 50 kbps. It's significantly different than "unlimited service" that caps your usage at 10 GB and then deactivates your service until the following month.

said by Matt:

That's a very good point and I bet that is precisely what the lawyers were thinking when it was written.

said by funchords:

But it is a limit, in fact imposing a new limit to the users maximum speed becomes a second disqualifier to their ability to advertise UNLIMITED.

But I can play along. I'm in technology. I have no soul.

FUNCHORDS UNLIMITED BROADBAND (1 byte per customer per year, 1 account per customer, no customers under 9 feet tall, unlimited number of customers).

said by Matt:

You still have unlimited access and unlimited download capability. Your connection is already limited to a certain Mbps, so throttling it down to 50Kbps doesn't change that. So their argument would be that they don't mean an unlimited Mbps ... that is impossible to provide, they mean unlimited consumption. Limiting a user to, even your 1Kbps still provides for unlimited consumption, just veeeeeeeery slowly.

said by funchords:

Okay, I get it. It's Friday and you're making up for the fact that dadkins seems to be sleeping.