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What is "unlimited internet"?
It's just what we call "internet" in most countries ๐ Remember the early 2000s when ISPs tried to limit how much internet we could use and so we just switched to another provider that had a better offer, and the whole 'limit' thing disappeared virtually overnight?
Yeah...
I don't remember it being like that, ever. ๐
We had 56k dial-up as our first connection, but the only limiting factor was that it was a bit costly due to essentially being a phone call. No limit on the data. Then came ADSL -- 1.5 Mbps speed, but no data limit. Then 100/10 Mbps in the more modern era, so of course no limit. Now as an adult living on my own, I've had 100/100 Mbps, 300/150 Mbps, and now 500/500 Mbps, obviously no limits.
This was all in Sweden.
But yeah, like you say, I guess most other countries don't really have limits on the data. I find that to be insane in 2024 that an ISP would limit the amount of data you can use. It would have to be really freaking cheap and I'd have to be really freaking poor to want to choose that option.
What I do remember is being limited on how much data I can use on my phone, which is still a thing in 2024. I also find that to be rather crazy when I think about it.
For phones that infrastructure is just so much more costly since it needs near constant replacement with newer tech. 5G is far from completely rolled out and the next project looks to be dismantling GSM and 3G after that it won't be long till 6G. Meanwhile Fiber is all but ubiquitous by now, hell several vacation homes in the extended family has fiber ny now and the cables won't need to be switched for a long time I reckon, I'm betting 30 years at least of only needing to change the switches every 10 or so years, which is infinitely cheaper and easier than building/replacing a mobile network mast.
Makes sense, yeah ๐