New Vodafone plans include unlimited internet -- and fine print
By Chris Ziegler 
posted May 5th 2008 2:40PM
posted May 5th 2008 2:40PM
New plans being lauded by Vodafone in the UK are going to run mobile internet fiends £7.50 (about $14.80) less than they otherwise would've thanks to the inclusion of unlimited data right in the bundle. The packages start at £25, and those over £40 also get their pick of unlimited texts, unlimited landline calls, or unlimited Vodafone-to-Vodafone calls. As any skeptic could've easily guessed, there's some critical fine print attached to the deal: the "unlimited" isn't so unlimited, getting capped at 500MB as part of Voda's fair use policy. For a sub-$15 plan that's not intended for tethering, that doesn't seem to be a problem -- but seriously, why even throw the word "unlimited" out there then?
The "unlimited" is a marketing term here, not to be used as a definition of the amount of data.
Yeah, but if they were honest it'd make them look cheap- where Ilive that kind of money gets me twice as much data per month.
lolz that would surely tick me off when i use on average 2GB data on my AT&T 3G network. This is only on phone and not tethering.
i dont get why phone carriers are allowed to say "unlimited" when its not. plain and simple. a car company couldnt tell u that u have an unlimited mile warranty but then have fine print defining unlimited as 36,000 miles. so why can phone carriers redefine unlimited? i see that they are using unlimited for marketing, but it IS a defining word whether they want to use it as making a definition or not. Eternity is another defining word. I cant sell a pill that will let you live for eternity and then have fine print saying that a "fair length" of eternity is 1 day to up to 100 years.
I have a better idea, let's start selling your "live forever" pill.