BroadBand Services-What Does it Mean to be Capped?
Many broadband services today, both mobile and home services will advertise that their services are unlimited. However the truth is often rather different, and upon reading the small print you will often see that you are strictly limited.
This may be listed as a bandwidth cap, or as a ‘fair usage’ policy. What are these terms and how do they apply to you?
The term ‘fair usage’ is a little ambiguous and differs from company to company. Fair usage is in principle a good thing. Some people abuse unlimited services and end up using so much that it is to the detriment of other users.
By them using so much, there is not enough for left for there to be a reasonable service for other users.
This presents the greedy user with an overly good service-they are getting a whole lot and yet not paying very much. The regular users suffer, experiencing slow downloads and load browsing, and sometimes even service downtime when they can’t connect at all. Read the rest of this entry →
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