How often do you read fine prints or TOS? Let alone installing free softwares, most of us will not even bother to read those great wall of boring texts when we are subscribing something for money. We know there might be some tricky policies in there, but with the intended (I guess) ultra small fonts, boring format and pure black and white, we tend to convince ourselves that it’s fine, no need to read.

As to ease these lazy peoples that wouldn’t bother to read (I don’t read them, too) who intended to get some internet goodness, I’ve compiled the Fair Usage Policy of some most major ISPs in Malaysia. Mind you, some are true shocking, the first one especially.

Maxis Broadband

No joke, monthly usage is capped at 3GB for BOTH upload and download.

Each customer’s total usage per month shall NOT exceed 3GB of data volume transmitted (total upload and download usage). This is to ensure that no individual hogs the bandwidth at all times. (link)

Celcom Broadband

How extreme can 5GB be, I wonder.

In order to ensure that no individual hogs the bandwidth at all times, Celcom reserves the right to implement the Fair Usage Policy. Each customer will still enjoy their unlimited Broadband services at the monthly rate determined. However if it has been detected that a customer has abused the service with extremely high usage exceeding 5GB, Celcom then reserves the right to manage the customer’s bandwidth to ensure fairness to all other customers on the same network. (link)

U Mobile

For our Broadband Service, your total usage per month shall NOT exceed 5GB of data volume transmitted (total upload and download usage). This is to ensure that no subscriber can congest the bandwidth at all times. (link)

Streamyx

No specific amount of allowed data transfer is mentioned. No news is good news. Is no specific amount is good amount? But I guess it will be just anything better than the limits set by the ISPs above.

The Fair Usage Policy automatically identifies the extremely heavy users and manages their bandwidth in order to protect the service of all our other customers. This traffic prioritization policy will protect the quality of service for the majority of our customers when they use the service, while at the same time, still allowing the extremely heavy users to continue to send and receive files with certain restrictions. With this policy in place, we will prioritize Internet activities like web browsing, live streaming, messaging applications and VOIP access while traffic to P2P sites will be given lower priority, due to the high bandwidth consumption of such services. (link)

P1 WiMAX

I wasn’t quite happy with P1’s 20GB limit previously, but now I feel just okay with it. It’s like how you will feel irritated by a crying baby 2 rows back in a jumbo jet, but you will tell God that you’re perfectly alright with the crying baby when the jumbo jet nosedive and the oxygen mask pops in front of you. 20GB doesn’t sound right initially, but it’s perfectly good after knowing Maxis have a limit of a ridiculous 3GB.

Each subscriber’s total usage per month shall not exceed 20 gigabytes of data volume transmitted (total upload and download usage. (link)

I’m now wondering if it’s only Malaysian ISP who have ridiculous bandwidth limit. How do these fair usage policies looks like in your country, if you’re not in Malaysia, and if your ISP have any of those?