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also the good old "here's 3 plans that aren't usable, so the extortionate cost of the 'unlimited' (which in theory is of course infinitely more than you'll ever need) plan looks vaguely acceptable."
fuck an entire off, charge a dollar per gigabyte you fucking parasites, or even better stop pretending that data caps are in any way acceptable and just charge people for the bandwidth.
In Slovakia we have a carrier that's doing a new and improved way of nefarious to get around EU roam like at home regulations.
They sell unlimited base package with just 4GB + unlimited sms/calls for EUR 20/ month. From that, with such a price, they have to commit full 4GB for roaming. But now take this, with this, and only this specific plan you can purchase an additional unlimited data package for just EUR 5/month. Since the roaming cap is based on the price, and they calculate the data package separately, the data they have to offer for the same price is far lower.
Calculation time: If calculating for unlimited package as EUR 25/month (what you pay in reality):
But you only get 10.25GB, what gives?
Looks legit enough for people who don't know, but is far less than would otherwise be required.
The carrier is 4ka (Swan Mobile) and the roaming data calculation is described here: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/roaming
The latter exactly check out with what's being provided.
Reducing to 256kbps is not throttling, it's practically blocking. Also is that USD? How is that supposed to be cheap
i will never comprehend why corporations have to be so actively spiteful towards their users, would it really kill them to just throttle to something reasonably usable? You've already got me paying the most expensive subscription you have, what the fuck more do you want?
How about minimum priority? Just splitting what's left over.
Perhaps you'd get just 256kbps during the day depending on the load, but at night there's typically far more unused capacity.
Some carriers do actually do this, but not many.
doo doo plans
