Verizon Clamps Down on Heaviest 5% of Users
Greedy authoritarians
OmegaWolf747 said:
Always looking for a way to crack down on people's fun while bleeding us of money! 👿
You've got to be a heavy data user and in an area where the network is already congested, so at least they're not always throttling you.
On one tower there may be hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of customers. Why should the other 9,9999 be hit with a service outage just because one greedy, selfish person decides to use up all the bandwidth for himself?
You don't have the right to deprive me of the ability to use a service that I paid for.....
T Bone said:
Everyone has an equal right to access the service that they paid for....if one person is using so much that there isn't enough left for anyone else it is entirely reasonable for them to step in and put a stop to it.
On one tower there may be hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of customers. Why should the other 9,9999 be hit with a service outage just because one greedy, selfish person decides to use up all the bandwidth for himself?
You don't have the right to deprive me of the ability to use a service that I paid for.....
It isn't the consumer "depriving" you of access to a tower, it is the wireless provider! It is their fault for selling "unlimited" data to folks when their netw...
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No one can possibly promise ANYBODY a truly 'unlimited' amount of anything, and only a very immature, arrogant and entitled person would complain about being denied it.
un·lim·it·ed
—š —š[uhn-lim-i-tid] Show IPA
adjective
1.
not limited; unrestricted; unconfined: unlimited trade.
2.
boundless; infinite; vast: the unlimited skies.
3.
without any qualification or exception; unconditional
Synonyms
1. unconstrained, unrestrained, unfettered.
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So excuse the rest of us if we read unlimited as advertised and expect to get what we pay for.
T Bone said:
That 'unlimited' means 'genuinely infinite' and that the word 'unlimited' is meant in the strictest, most literal, most absolute sense possible.
No one can possibly promise ANYBODY a truly 'unlimited' amount of anything, and only a very immature, arrogant and entitled person would complain about being denied it.
You have defeated your own argument by violating the terms you previously set for it:
T Bone said:...
"In the business world, 'unlimited' doesn't mean 'genuinely infinite' it doesn't mean that there is absolutely no cap, it means that the cap is set high enough that they assume few people will be able to reach it...it doesn't mean you get infinite usage...."
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