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Sprint Throttles Top 1% of Users, Still Markets 'Unlimited'

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Abuse unlimited ?

Tofuchong

Jan 5, 2012, 9:24 PM
By definition unlimited means limitless. Something that is limitless, and without end, and is offered and paid for under the guise that it is unlimited, can not be abused, only used.

Sprint is no longer the only carrier that offers fully/truly unlimited data, now, none of them do. Anybody can become the top 1%, and anybody can have their speeds throttled.
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Jellz

Jan 5, 2012, 9:49 PM
*standard rebuttal of saying everyone gets their fair share and that there is no true unlimited usage of a finite source*

Seen the argument a million times. Move along.
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Tofuchong

Jan 5, 2012, 9:53 PM
Your standard rebuttle does not apply, and is null and 100% void, and not good for sale.

Sprint markets differently than everybody else, if you speaking about any other carrier, yes, your rebuttle applies, but in this situation, it does not.
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T Bone

Jan 5, 2012, 10:08 PM
"By definition unlimited means limitless"

Actually, in the world of business 'unlimited' means not that there is no cap at all, but that the cap is set high enough that it is assumed few people will ever be able to reach it.

And I'm sure that if you read the contract and all the fine print, that that is precisely what Sprint's definition of 'unlimited' is, no carrier would be dumb enough to promise a truly unlimited right to use its network.

Just like The Olive Garden's 'unlimited pasta and breadsticks' doesn't mean you can spend 15 hours there eating them into bankruptcy.
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Tofuchong

Jan 5, 2012, 10:55 PM
""Just like The Olive Garden's 'unlimited pasta and breadsticks' doesn't mean you can spend 15 hours there eating them into bankruptcy.""

Hey, I've been to olive garden. I've seen those guns taped behind the toilet - now I know what they are for 🙂 .

And you are probably right about the contract, but not about the word. My dictionary does not have a "Business Definition" section in it, and I use Oxford.
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Fredd

Jan 6, 2012, 1:25 PM
Semantics. Using 20+ GB of data per month is something I think most reasonable people would consider abusing.

Of course, I would excpet that 20+ GB would be the top .01% of users! It should be intersting to see where the cut lies.
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