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EE Fair Usage - How often is it enforced?

@sof006 Honestly I do not know. As I said before I went over 1TB several times and nothing happened so.. fingers crossed. :)
Dear EE, regarding your fair usage policy, I would like to let you know about............. :devilish:
 
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Dear EE, regarding your fair usage policy, I would like to let you know about............. :devilish:
V reminiscent of me and JP telling voxi and Vodafone about mobilefreak 😂😂
 
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Got him taken down twice again under two different names cos we all know it was him 🤣
No, I just noticed his latest Asda Mobile post was the same as all his others so knew it was him.
 
This is good to know, although I suppose that clause in the FUP means that they could enforce whenever but I also guess that would probably cause a lot of backlash from customers so its probably not worth the hassle enforcing it.

I don't understand why networks, ISP's have things like this since fibre has essentially limitless bandwidth?
Mobile is not the same as a bit of glass, there are limitations to how much capacity they can have on the radio network, so for a start the basis of the assumption is wrong.

However, it's not "free" or "limitless" as such - to simplify things a little, sure you can send quite a bit of bandwidth over a fibre, but you need more and more expensive kit to go faster and faster over that bit of glass, and at some point that data has to go somewhere which isn't within your own network - via peering or transit. Peering generally is very low cost, but not necessarily entirely free, transit is usually not even vaguely free, and whilst capacity is considerably more reasonable than it once was, consumption is also rising, and someone has to pay for that.

You also have to consider that if I had say 100 fibres coming in from various places, all of which could pass say 100G, I now have to have kit that can handle 100G x 100 if I want no contention somewhere in my network, and the more scale you need, the less "free" or "limitless" it is.

The compromise is thus to have less connectivity than potential raw speed if 100% of capacity is used, which is essentially what everyone does, to bring cost down. That then means you potentially might need a way to protect yourself from scenarios where 20% of customers use 80% of your capacity, as that then does present you a problem.

All of the above is a very much stripped down version of reality, but ultimately it isn't quite as limitless as it sounds and the devil as always is in the detail.

In this particular case, EE has finite radio spectrum and capacity thus, and it will have finite backhaul capacity - I can assure you that they do not have every single cell site connected with insane amounts of capacity, for various reasons and again as a result they need a way to protect themselves from a small number of customers flooding the capacity of a cell site with limited capacity, even before you consider any other capacity issues elsewhere in the network, hence the FUP.
 
I'd like to know what EE would consider "abuse" as the term is so loosely used in their FUP.

I can hedge a guess but.... also this term saying they could move you onto a more appropriate contract but what's more appropriate than the already unlimited contract that i'd be paying for?

EE make this very confusing.
  • "Unlimited Plans: Uncapped and Unlimited data. Personal, non-commercial use only. If you regularly tether 12 or more devices, we will consider this non-personal use and have the right to move you to a more suitable plan. We will consider usage above 600GB/month to be non-personal use and have the right to apply traffic management controls to deprioritise your mobile traffic during busy periods or to move you to a business plan."
That's what current plans being sold today say. It is clear to me - if you use over 600GB/month they have the right/reserve the right - eg may, if they choose, do something about it, with potential actions listed. It doesn't mean they *will* just that they have the right to do so. If your usage isn't causing them any particular bother, they have no real incentive to do anything, but if it was, they have a method to do something about it.

The reality is, that if enough people use very high amounts of data, they will eventually have to do something about it, more than likely. This is exactly how it played out with regular broadband for years. So if the usage becomes a problem before capacity becomes adequate to sustain it (which will be a combination of financial, commercial and technical changes), you can be sure they'll eventually do "something".
 
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