[aklug] Re: Last days of unlimited?

The terms of service/fair use policy were already modified. Note that I am
not in the group that sets the standards and policies and am speaking from
my personal knowledge rather than in official context but I think I have a
general understanding of the changes:

GCI is not re-implementing automatic overbill on "unlimited plans"; what is
occurring is that GCI is setting reasonable limits (based around max normal
use with lots of overhead) and has the ability to contact you regarding
upgrading or terminating service if the GB cap is exceeded. In order to
reflect this change properly the company has stopped using the term
"unlimited" to describe services in new advertising.

For example, the 12/1 Plan has a 100GB per month cap. After that limit has
been reached the company reserves the right to contact you and if a good
solution cannot be found, terminate your service. No unexpected $300 bills,
etc. such as occurred in the early days when people blew by their bit cap by
downloading movies/music 24x7 from Bit Torrent/Gnutella/etc., ran a
traffic-heavy business from a consumer cable modem service or didn't realize
their kids were doing the same.

Here is a link to the Fair Use Policy, which also includes the bit-cap
limits for different plans:
http://portal.gci.net/usage/fair_use.html

Have a great evening.
-Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf Of
David Prentice
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 7:45 PM
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Subject: [aklug] Re: Last days of unlimited?

GCI's "unlimited" is going to phase out later this year. I don't know when,
exactly. My plan will go from unlimited 4meg to having a 70gig soft ceiling.
As I understand it, at that point they start pondering whether you're
abusing your service and consider disconnecting you, but hidden in the
paperwork I'm sure is a per-gig fee for exceeding the cap.

According to my router logs, my peak month in the last 24 was just under
60gig, my lowest month was 20gig, and typical months for me are around
35gig.

I don't keep a mirror and I haven't been distro-hopping in a long time. I've
been staying very satisfied with Ubuntu for a while now.
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Received on Tue Jun 22 21:21:33 2010