[OT] For UK residents only - "Unlimited" broadband

[Mark Haney]

Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2007 15:53:59 Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> Not likely to happen, this is wider than ISPs, it's about the ASA and
>>>> its allowing of AUPs on "unlimited" services, I know mobile phone
>>>> operators do the same, "Unlimited" texts usually means about 3000 a
>>>> month...
>>> 3000 texts a month??? Is that not enough?
>> You've never tried running IP over SMS messages then. Which it must be
>> admitted may be one of the reasons for the 3000 message cap appearing....
> 
> Maybe I misunderstand you, but, apart from that (supposing you have some kind 
> of monitoring system such as pandora or nagios which send sms messages when 
> an alert is fire, for example), 3000 is a huge amount of texts. I'm sure I'd 
> not be able to exceed it anyways...
> 

I scoff in your general direction (humor intended) my 16 yo daughter 
coughed up that many in a week.  Trust me, 3000 isn't all that much. :)


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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