Quote:
Originally Posted by DNSB
Is it real unlimited data? Or a cellphone provider's version of unlimited?
|
I used to work for an ISP and know others in other ISPs.
Also I can read fine print. Fine print will mention "fair use".
No-one offers real unlimited, not even on fibre. Same on Hosting. Some will charge above a certain threshold, or repeated breaking of a threshold, others will throttle and others cut you off.
Mobile/Cell capacity is so limited that "unlimited" is a lie and unfair to the majority of users as the high consumption users are slowing everyone else and being subsidised.
The repeat limit on Cell/Mobile can be from 100G to 500G for "fair use" and can be 1 or 2 T byte on fibre. Maybe much more on fibre. Cable varies in capacity according to size of coax segment, which might have been 100 to 2000 people in the past, but with HFC where fibre goes to a cabinet feeding coax it can be as few as 10 households. With DSL and Fibre the bottleneck is the fibre or microwave feeding the exchange. With mobile/cell tower on fibre the limit the channel size / number of channels / signal strengh and sector size (aerial system). Satellite is the worst for capacity as it might have the speed of one cell/mobile mast but shared to 100x to 10,000x the area.