http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/09/25/t-mobiles-change-of-heart/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/09/25/t-mobiles-change-of-heart/#comment-107794 Aneurin Price Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:29:29 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=5574#comment-107794 Odds are this is really more like what they wanted, and they have the excuse that people didn't like the old terms in order to do this. Now there's an unspecified limit with an unspecified penalty for an unspecified group of people. Basically, they reserve the right to throttle/disconnect anybody whenever they feel like it. Yay progress! (To anyone who thinks I'm overly cynical: this is exactly what ISPs do. The ones with bad sounding tems of service are far better to go with, because the others are just worse but they're basically lying.) Odds are this is really more like what they wanted, and they have the excuse that people didn’t like the old terms in order to do this. Now there’s an unspecified limit with an unspecified penalty for an unspecified group of people. Basically, they reserve the right to throttle/disconnect anybody whenever they feel like it.
Yay progress!
(To anyone who thinks I’m overly cynical: this is exactly what ISPs do. The ones with bad sounding tems of service are far better to go with, because the others are just worse but they’re basically lying.)

]]> http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/09/25/t-mobiles-change-of-heart/#comment-107643 Matthew Musgrove Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:47:48 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=5574#comment-107643 I read that as "We've removed the 1GB soft limit from our policy statement but we will continue enforce it." I read that as “We’ve removed the 1GB soft limit from our policy statement but we will continue enforce it.”

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