Why Are ISPs Still Advertising Limited Services As Unlimited? - Better question: why are they still getting away with it? - dslreports.com

From the page: "For years, both landline and wireless carriers have been marketing their broadband services as unlimited, then burying some very real limits deep in their usage agreement fine print. Some companies stopped this only after users spent years complaining, like when Comcast used... more

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Rated by BambiCNI on Dec 21 2008, 11:27am

From the page: "For years, both landline and wireless carriers have been marketing their broadband services as unlimited, then burying some very real limits deep in their usage agreement fine print. Some companies stopped this only after users spent years complaining, like when Comcast used to pretend their service didn't have any limits. In other cases it required government intervention, like when NY's Attorney General busted Verizon Wireless for falsely advertising their EVDO service as unlimited, then sending users letters threatening disconnection for using too much bandwidth. Click for full size That's why it's surprising to see carriers still trying to get away with it (and succeeding). During their recent launch of the much ballyhooed HTC G1, T-Mobile's advertising proclaimed that users get "unlimited web access." We were the first to notice that buried in the fine print was the fact that users who consumed more than 1GB per month could find their service throttled back to 50kbps or less."

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