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I'd like all mobile internet adverts to have to specify in minutes the "fair usage".

4Gb is "unlimited" fair usage. That would seem less fair expressed as "35 minutes". *

Packages offering 250MB of 4G would seem pathetic when expressed as "2 1/2 minutes of internet".

*Average 4G speed is apparently around 15Mbps in UK.

They could just say "4gb" or "250mb" and reserve the words "unlimited" until they truly are. I'm on Three and use 20-25gb/mo. They say it's unlimited, but it certainly isn't limiting.

It can never be "unlimited" because there is always a limit to how much data you can transfer in a month, given a theoretical maximum bandwidth of x Mbps for 4G networks (actual achieveable transfer speed even less). The correct term is "unmetered".

Actually, yeah, that would be a better term.

> 4Gb is "unlimited" fair usage.

Do you mean 4Gb or 4GB? They aren't the same.

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