They will no will no longer throttle mobile internet to unusable speeds after data allowances are exhausted, so it is kind of a “minimum universal connection” via mobile.
I do have similar thing with my plan after consuming all plan data but the speed is 512k. It’s good for text messages, using banking apps, browsing lemmy (world news and subs focuses on text).
It’s not blazing fast nor slow to hell. 2-10 seconds to perform an action which is acceptable imo.
IDK, 400kbit/s is pretty close to unusable these days…
It’s enough for email, chats, banking and other essentials.
I would say it’s not enough to stream a movie, which seems fair to me if you spent all the data you have for the period.
The home page of one of the largest banks by asset size https://www.shinhan.com/index.jsp would transfer 3.80MB up and 7.93MB down in a span of just under 4 minutes to fully load lol
400kbps would be slow as hell, for all of those use cases. Video would be unusable, but other stuff would still be insanely slow with all the bloat in modern websites and tracking crap in apps.
Use an ad-blocker and suddenly it is an ok speed.
It would be horridly slow for all those things (well maybe not text-only chats)
Yeah, how is the website supposed to load a >GB of bloat and ads quickly?
400kbit/s excruciatingly slow for even basic things besides web browsingon bloated sites.
They should do this everywhere, but the speed should be a bit higher. Like if you’re on a cheap unlimited plan and you get deprioritized, it shouldn’t go lower than 5Mbit. The whales paying for priority can still get 50+Mbit or whatever, but they shouldn’t be given 100+ or 200+ so everyone else gets unusable speeds. Adjust the numbers to make it make more sense.
This is not for unlimited plans
This is how most of the telcos work in NZ. They sell unlimited plans with 10gb or whatever of high speed data. It drops to 2mbs when you run out that month
400kbit/s is still kinda shitty
Might be low, but it’s still access to the internet. Seems like a great move.
That much? Wow how generous of the corporate overlords.
