Monday 20 September 2010

What does Unlimited Really Mean ?

Amplify’d from cow.neondragon.net

What does unlimited mean? According to the dictionary definition: “having no restrictions or control” or “having or seeming to have no boundaries”. Unfortunately in the world of mobile phones and mobile internet, it’s not so simple. Networks impose fair usage policies on “unlimited” tariffs. In this article, we’ve dug through the small print to find out what “unlimited” really means on each of the networks.

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What they say
Unlimited internet
Unlimited Windows Live Messenger
Unlimited Skype
What they mean
500 MB per month
10,000 Windows Live messages per month
month
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What they say
Unlimited texts (Text and Web)
Unlimited internet (Pay Monthly, from June 2010)
Unlimited internet (Text and Web)
Unlimited internet (Web Bolt On)
What they mean
12,000 texts per month
From 500MB per month
500MB per month
orange
What they say
Unlimited texts
Unlimited internet (Panther)
Unlimited landline minutes
Unlimited email
Unlimited music (PAYG)
What they mean
3,000 texts per month
750MB per month
3,000 minutes per month
500MB per month
600 minutes per month
tmobile
What they say
What they mean
vodafone
What they say
What they mean
virgin
What they say
What they mean
What is a fair usage policy?
What are the fair usage policies?Read more at cow.neondragon.net
 

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