The truth about unlimited broadband is that you are most likely not getting it.

I remember a time when it used to take half a day just to download an mp3 from the internet,a task which these days takes seconds which is happily welcomed but another problem is that ISPs have gotten into the tendency of advertising services which rarely come to pass.These days having a broadband connection is no longer something left for the wealthy and ISPs are taking advantage of this by putting very sweet and convicncing words in their advertisements just so they can get a larger market share.


Unlimited
Like telling someone you love them this term too is being thrown around a lot by ISPs and like a pick up line they float this around a lot.Of the various ISPs and bundles I have used very few have offered a true unlimited broadband experience.A few examples of those that don't are Zuku and Safaricom who offer unlimited broadband but limit the speeds.Zuku fibre users are well aware of this in that when you download a certain amount of data within an hour or two the speeds are cut by around a fifth or sixth.Lets say you are on the Imbps service,if you download around 500 mb in an hour the download speed will reduce from around 120KBps to 30KBps,it resets in around 2 hours.This is very understandable in that they are trying to protect bandwidth wastage which makes sense but if you are going to limit speeds at least put inform people of this or put some terms and conditions in the advertisement.Safaricom also recently launched a weekly and monthly unlimited data bundle costing 1000/= and 3000/= respectively.Speeds for this bundle are capped at 256kbps but since this is from Safaricom I am not surprised.I always laugh when Safaricom advertise that they are cheapest 3G network in the country,what kind of rubbish is that and they are the only 3G network.Nice one safaricom,Kenya Power is also the cheapest and most reliable electricity supplier in the country,I am also the richest human being in my bedroom.OrangeKenya's 3G+ and Zuku,s Wimax are the only true unlimited broadband services I have ever used.The problem of 3G+ is that the availability is limited and the speed is slow in congested areas.

Speeds of upto XMbps
This is a favourite of 3G and 3G+ ISPs,they give you the speeds they attained when they were testing the network and they know very well you will never attain these speeds in the domestic setting but those figures look very nice in those full page advertisements in the newspaper so never take those figures seriously.

Connection time
This is something Zuku frustrated many new broadband subscribers with,it is not your right to be connected in moments but the ISP shouldn't lie and keep you waiting thinking that every knock on your gate is them.