Filed under “Dude, WTF!?” is the curious case of the Belgian ISP called Telenet, whom decided to publish numbers of how much data they are pulling and pushing for their top users. The amount for one user? 2.7 Terabytes. Or 2680 GB to be exact.
For fact loving number crunchers, that’s 571 DVDs (DVD-5 4.70GB Single sided, Single layer), 108 Bluray discs (Single-Layer), and if you are talking old 3.5″ floppies, that’s 1,905,778 of them (1.44mb formatted).
And for those who think this is just one customer heavily using their connection, think again. The top 10 combined is 13,567.4 GB of data, and it doesn’t improve the further down the list you go.
Is the ISP going to spank the user involved? Why, no. Instead, they’re showing off their bit-shifting abilities to encourage their customers to upgrade to the highest level of service, where there isn’t a cap, but there is a “fair use”. And this is very fair use, especially considering it’s just 99 Euro a month (£80/ $125).
I would say it’s almost worth getting it myself, but I live outside of Belgium and my provider already offers me a 20Mbit connection with the possibility of 50 for not much more and relatively relaxed caps. Others on heavily capped services would probably think otherwise.
Now, where’s my passport gone…
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