Yeah, it appears that they've shuttered their back-end systems to do a labor day weekend upgrade. Fortunately it looks like I missed the fact that the deadline for comment had previously been extended to October 9.
This is a heaping pile of of semantics. Go back and read the definition that leads the post again. Please take time to note words like "unrestricted" and "unconditional."
If I throttle your "unlimited" connection to 10 kbps and then kick you in the crotch, are you still ok if I use the word unlimited? Because technically you're still getting an unlimited connection.
"It's still unlimited because technically data is still flowing regardless of anything else done to the connection" is specious, flimsy reasoning.
"As far as I'm concerned, I see no problem with T-Mobile going after these users, because chances are, they're the bots we all hate sending out spam texts everyone gets."
I have no problem with T-Mobile going after them either, as I think the article makes clear.
My problem is in marketing a limited product as unlimited (speed versus data consumption is irrelevant) and in Legere's specific approach in announcing what otherwise wouldn't have been that big of a deal.
The false bravado that they're being an industry leader by cracking down on heavy users is frankly just kind of stupid. Every ISP in existence is playing this cat and mouse game daily without a blog post patting themselves on the back for it.
Your data is unlimited except when you are on a congested tower and consume more than 21 gigabytes of cellular data per month at which point you'll be de-prioritized and oh did we also mention that if you use the device as a modem an entirely different set of rules apply at which point you are limited to 7 gigabytes of data before being deprioritzed unless you install a custom ROM at which point ignore this last bit.
"This must be the worse content free anti-Russian propaganda ever on techdirt. I come to techdirt for technology news and not political propaganda. Shame on you."
"How dare you impugn the reputation of Russia dear sir, are you aware that (laundry list of countries) ALSO do ridiculous and horrendous shit?"
"Why no, thank you for this information good sir. As someone who spends the other nine hours of every day criticizing the United States government, this information had somehow escaped my clearly lagging attentions."
I think it's just ambiguous for him to defend it as misinterpreted, though I've seen him make similar comments in newsgroups and on Twitter over the years.
You'd be surprised how many broadband customers still defend the practice of caps and root against their own best self interests. Or maybe you wouldn't be.
It's not to say one or all ISPs are "bad" or "good." It's more about MOST ISPs seeing so little competition they're unwilling to compete and upgrade networks. It's not some personal slight against "all ISPs," it's simply a fact of the market they reside in.
Net neutrality, municipal broadband, the shift to Title II, the raising of broadband's definition of 25 Mbps. All of this happened in the last year. The industry's pretty pissed, and this is just the FCC throwing them a bone.
But yeah, long-term strategic planning doesn't happen at the FCC in large part because of partisan patty cake and the rotating crop of team cheerleaders that staff the Commission.
That the last year saw as much pro-consumer and small business improvements as it has is nothing short of a miracle.
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If I throttle your "unlimited" connection to 10 kbps and then kick you in the crotch, are you still ok if I use the word unlimited? Because technically you're still getting an unlimited connection.
"It's still unlimited because technically data is still flowing regardless of anything else done to the connection" is specious, flimsy reasoning.
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I have no problem with T-Mobile going after them either, as I think the article makes clear.
My problem is in marketing a limited product as unlimited (speed versus data consumption is irrelevant) and in Legere's specific approach in announcing what otherwise wouldn't have been that big of a deal.
The false bravado that they're being an industry leader by cracking down on heavy users is frankly just kind of stupid. Every ISP in existence is playing this cat and mouse game daily without a blog post patting themselves on the back for it.
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Your data is unlimited except when you are on a congested tower and consume more than 21 gigabytes of cellular data per month at which point you'll be de-prioritized and oh did we also mention that if you use the device as a modem an entirely different set of rules apply at which point you are limited to 7 gigabytes of data before being deprioritzed unless you install a custom ROM at which point ignore this last bit.
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Could you please be more specific dear sir?
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This article is about Russia doing stupid shit.
For information on the United States doing stupid shit, please examine our back catalog of 45,000 posts on that subject.
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"Why no, thank you for this information good sir. As someone who spends the other nine hours of every day criticizing the United States government, this information had somehow escaped my clearly lagging attentions."
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But yeah, long-term strategic planning doesn't happen at the FCC in large part because of partisan patty cake and the rotating crop of team cheerleaders that staff the Commission.
That the last year saw as much pro-consumer and small business improvements as it has is nothing short of a miracle.
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