On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:27 -0700, randulo wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Trixter aka Bret > McDanel<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 08:34 -0700, randulo wrote: > >> 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. > > > that is not true, that is only true from providers that want to lie to > > customers and claim they are unlimited when they have no intention of > > providing what they advertise. > > You're missing one thing: "unlimited" is totally impossible to prove, > ever, by definition, except using infinity as a factor, so I stand by > my definition. :) Unlimited is like saying "the most beautiful...", > it's unprovable.
I disagree, if you can place calls every minute of every day for the entire month and not be shut off or threatened with service termination, then it is unlimited. I have seen t-mobile paperwork at one point that listed the number of minutes available for their nights and weekends plan which exceeded the number of minutes in any month of the year including holidays - basically making it impossible to ever run over. I know people that have made calls on t-mobile with 6-way and others with t-mobile with 3-way (where that was the max they could do) and boost with 3-way and used every minute of the month on the phone and not been disconnected. I think that qualifies as unlimited. Now to prove that unlimited does have limits with some providers, there are many many providers that will shut you off well before that even though they advertise unlimited. Take skype, they say unlimited in their marketing materials and 10,000 minutes per month (a finite limit). If there is any type of "fair use" agreement then it is not unlimited, it is in fact the opposite of unlimited. I think anything approaching 40,000 minutes per channel (just under 24/7 for a month) should qualify even if its short by a couple thousand minutes. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel pgp key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8AE5C721 _______________________________________________ --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
