[155773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fair Use Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Aug 22 18:19:08 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAD6AjGSMh95K7Ypy700TXbhXPi4Ad1SFY3YWU+zf3aAhJ9dRAQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:15:21 -0700
To: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 22, 2012, at 14:45 , Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> And, in the other camp, unlimited offerings from T-Mobile, Sprint, =
and Metro
>>>=20
>>=20
>> Well...sort of. To be fair, the T-Mo version of unlimited is =
unlimited up to a certain amount
>> (that you paid for) and then all-you-can-sip at incredibly low speed =
thereafter.
>>=20
>> (At least that's what their marketing literature says... If Cameron =
knows different, it
>> would be nice to know.)
>>=20
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> Cameron* does know different.
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>> =46rom the link i posted, here again
> =
http://www.pcworld.com/article/261247/tmobile_metropcs_roll_out_unlimited_=
data_plans.html
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> "Starting Sept. 5, T-Mobile will offer a new Unlimited Nationwide 4G
> data plan that doesn=92t have any data caps or speed limits. =
T-Mobile=92s
> other so-called unlimited data plans do have caps (2/5/10GB), but once
> you go past the threshold, your speed is throttled. The new plan,
> T-Mobile says, won=92t have such limitations."
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> And to be "fair and balanced" (TM):
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> "MetroPCS also joined the unlimited data plan party, but only for a
> limited time offer. "
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> CB
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> *Works at T-Mobile.
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> Marketing literature:
> =
http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/articles/t-mobile-unlimited-nationwide-4g-dat=
a
Cool!!! Does that offer include mobile hotspot?
Owen
