I don't really concur with your assessment. At least not completely.
If, for example, an ISP or cellular provider advertises "unlimited data", at a certain bit rate, and the product of the sum of the two for a period of thirty days doesn't exceed the cap on the total amount of data, then it is indeed unlimited for all intents and purposes.
What you're speaking towards, and I agree, is when they say 'unlimited', but we'll throttle your ass at summer certain cap - that to me is feloniously baited false advertising, regardless whether the vendor cites some arbitrary threshold for what a 'normal' user would avail themselves of, or sooner imaginary limit that they consider abusive. It's total bullshit - it's my data to use or lose, I bought it, and I am entitled to it.
Yes, there is a cap on bitrate, but a fixed, synchronous bit rate is what I'm paying for AND expect!!!
A few years ago several cellular providers got busted for this, with T-Mobile, ironically, being the only one that actually delivered services as promised at that time (about eight or ten years ago).
Great... Just fricken great. Please read those in chronological order.
Apologies for any confusion.
I really don't care for twatter length limits in character counts
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But if, say, I buy bandwidth the bitrate of 50Mbps/50Mbps, then I expect to have that at my disposal even if I leave that wide open with services and torrents and everyone in my household or office streaming Netflix in unison all fricken' month long!!!
Thank you for your post ⛵