True, a friend of mine experienced that. His vonage service was suspended for excessive use. Even he had an "unlimited" plan.
Sent from my iPod On Aug 16, 2009, at 11:34 AM, randulo <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting thread! With regard to the use of 'unlimited': > > Wengo's TOS in the early days when they offered unlimited SIP calling > at 7 euros per month did not state a number of minutes but had a > sentence difficult to translate into English, but meaning something > like this: > > "If you are using more minutes than the average person, we reserve > the right..." > > The idea was actually clear: no heavy business use, no large family of > glandular-age girls on the phone all day, etc. IIRC, they cut off > calls after two hours as well, probably for the teen-aged girls > referred to previously. > > Today, as you all know, 'unlimited' never means anything other than > "limited to an arbitrary amount of resource usage that we can > reconcile with our business plan". IOW, service providers need to make > money on the accounts, not just provide a service. > > If you ever heard anything else in 'unlmited', you probably also think > the $99 iPhone is a steal. Which it is. For AT&T. > > And what about unlimited dialing to 50 countries? Presumably a French > operator like <spit> Orange has to pay to terminate a call to the USA? > They *must* have limits. > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
