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It is misleading to sell something as unlimited when that can't actually be fulfilled, and it's unrealistic to believe you can buy something of value that is unlimited.

Setting a price for finite capacity that is to be reserved is a robust user-pays approach.

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I don't expect unlimited, because that would be unrealistic. What I expect, if I paid for 50Mbps, is to be able to realistically consume 50Mpbs.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=50Mbps+*+%28seconds+in+...

A 16TB data cap would be realistic and reasonable.

Maybe you should read the T&Cs, the 50mbps probably refers to the maximum speed you can expect

T&Cs don't mean squat when you're dealing with a monopoly. They can put any sort of consumer-unfriendly terms they want in there and then say "if you don't like it, you're free to go to our competitors" of which there is only one and they are colluding.

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