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6GB is a few dozen youtube videos, thats pretty far from even "basically"

Seriously? I have yet to meet a single person who has gone over 6GB on a mobile plan (even with tethering). In fact Rogers put out a statistic that something like only 3 people went over 6GB in the first month they offerred it.

As I said, I literally have streamed entire leafs (NHL) games and had plenty of space left to do normal things. If I'm not mistaken, Youtube data rate is 300kbps, which is 132 MB/hour. So 6GB would give you theoretically 46.5 hours of youtube videos. You're trying to tell me that that isn't "basically unlimited"? Seriously?

Hell, basic wired internet in Canada starts with a 25GB cap. 6GB is more then 99% of people need for mobile.

I'm on Fido with the 6GB plan. I've never gone above before, but might this month; on the 7th of November I received a notice saying I had used 75% of my data for the month.

My circumstances are pretty odd, though. I'm moving and sold my previous home at the end of October and don't get possession of the next till early December, and the space I'm in in the meantime has no internet, so all my internet usage is through my tethered iPhone. So it's possible; just really really hard.

>In fact Rogers put out a statistic that something like only 3 people went over 6GB in the first month they offerred it.

Rogers has a long history of blatantly lying about stuff like this, to skew the narrative in their favor.

>Youtube data rate is 300kbps

high definition video is far in excess of 300kbs

>You're trying to tell me that that isn't "basically unlimited"?

I think we use the internet in very different ways, if you consider 6GB "basicly unlimited" including tethering.

>basic wired internet in Canada starts with a 25GB cap

another sad result of the ISP oligopoly

I don't doubt that Rogers embellishes things like that. I'm still happy with $30 for 6GB.

I'm equal to any "power" user, I work on the road and tether daily while using the iPhone for basically everything. I'm still not getting anywhere near 6GB. You'd literally have to use the iPhone connection as your main internet source to get above 6GB. I'm not torrenting or streaming a TON while on my phone, but I watch mobile streamed hockey (they are at 400 kbps) fairly often.

HD video is indeed more then 300kbs - but are my Youtube videos on the iPhone 1080p? Hell no. Even netflix for mobile is severely compressed and still looks OK.

You may use more then 6GB of mobile data a month, but as I said before, I'm willing to bet you're in an extremely small percentage there.

>You'd literally have to use the iPhone connection as your main internet source

why is this so crazy? its perfectly possible in areas without insane rates and no competition

Example: approx 15% of Swedish broadband users have replaced their fixed line internet with 3G/4G. (source: http://www.pts.se/sv/Nyheter/Pressmeddelanden/2011/Nara-var-... )

It's a secondary internet connection. I just don't watch that many youtube videos during my morning coffeeshop rounds; I've yet to go past 4gb, and I stream an hour or two of video off the cbc website during the election.

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