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| reply to motoracer
Re: Vmobile History repeats itself with Virgin Mobile (generally shafting customers in the long run).
UNLIMITED is a word that should never be used with any cell carrier or internet provider.
Lets take for example, when VM first came out with BROADBAND2GO.... "unlimited" internet for $40 a month. I tried that for a while since I was without anything except dialup.
VM uses sprint's towers and their services always seem to be on the bottom of the prioritization of service.
I knew "unlimited" wouldn't last long off a mobile broadband device, and it didn't. Within a short period, it was reduced to 5GB, and shortly after that, reduced to 2.5GB with a new price of $50. So, now even the word "throttling" is entering the picture.
Broadband2Go never really had a good speed, 700-800kbps at the most, and I won't even go into the routing nightmare VM went thru when they first launched the service.
THEN comes their Beyond Talk plan and the Launch of the first Android powered phone, the Optimus V. "unlimited" data, yeah, right. I had one of these too, Speeds were never over 500-600kbps. (and not alot of people in this town even knew Sprint had a tower here).....Well, as you can see, "unlimited" means 2.5gb here too with throttling here as well. And all this with a rate hike. $25 to $35. (and of course, VM went thru the same old data access routing issues that they did with the Broadband2Go. left customers without 3G for days and days).
Now its official, throttling to 256kbps after 2.5GB of data.
Their claim is "unlimited" means "unlimited access", not "unlimited download capability".
What a crock of sh*t. Tried both previously, cancelled both.
Hard to believe this flim flam VM operation is managed and owned by SPRINT! | |
| it is unlimited but you only get 2.5 GB of full speed data.
Didn't cable vision used to do this in the past use to much data and they slow you down. | |
| reply to compuguybna
I had a VMUSA Mifi on their Broadband2go for a while, it got 500-800kbps normally, topped out maybe 1mbps. Not very good speeds at all, but that was 2 or so years ago and it was fine back then. Now I use a different service thats much faster. | |
| reply to compuguybna
Unlimited is an absolute term. This means it obeys boolean logic, i.e. true or false. If there's a limit, it's not unlimited. A throttle is a limit. A threshold of 2.5GB is a limit. But we must distinguish between a natural limit and an arbitrary limit. The way I see it, when an internet service is advertised as unlimited, it means without arbitrary limits. The maximum physical speed of the service is a natural limit. A throttle and a usage threshold are both arbitrary limits. Therefore when a provider advertises a service as unlimited but imposes arbitrary limits, it does not in fact offer an unlimited service. | | |
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