 bistro777Donuts-Is There Anything They Can't Do?Premium
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Englewood, CO | reply to rradina
Re: Right to refuse service said by rradina:
Although sold as unlimited, most TOS have clauses that grants the ISP the right to decide whether or not you are using their service in a manner that is compatible with their product offering. Vague as it may sound, I don't know that we can do anything about it except take our business elsewhere. Ahhh... now we're at the real crux of the matter at hand. Precious few HSI subscribers have a real choice and in the absence of competition, history has countless examples of monopoly abuse.
You hit the nail right on the head with that. Years ago when I worked on the @Home roll-out, TCI's (and other carriers') customers were routinely getting 8Mb down x whatever-you-could-cram-in up - - until we saw too many "Hey, I think I'll run a hosting service from my home" customers hogging bandwith.
Since then, most any provider's TOS has been nebulous and vague enough to provide service terminations for whatever reason. Just like most "right to work" employment laws, providers have the right to terminate our service without jumping through many hoops.
Fact of life and, unfortunately, not like insurance where we have a myriad of choices...
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