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Clear is especially egregious, as their advertising is (or at least was, when I had it) explicitly geared towards using it as a replacement for a wired home broadband connection, and touting how it could be used for streaming video and all sorts of other bandwidth-intensive uses. But they throttled me into oblivion after a couple of weeks of using it like a home connection, then gave me the runaround for weeks because none of their techs had been informed of their throttling policies.

We just need truth in advertising. Do what you will, just tell me what it is, and I can figure out the rest. I personally like metered wireless plans because I know that my incentives align with those of the provider, and I'm comfortable with the overage charges. If unlimited-with-throttling is better for others, great! But don't try to sell me "unlimited, period" and then not deliver.




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