I’m in the market for a mobile plan, so my wife forwarded me a link to this page at UPC:
Dein Persönliches Angebot
I’ve taken the liberty of adding some notes to the screenshot, but I’ll also list them here:
- They write that this offer is for me, personally, but there is no identifying information in the URL or cookies. This page looks the same in a private window. Stop lying to me, UPC. This offer is for literally anyone who stumbles across this page.
- I was kind of shocked to see that WhatsApp is given preferential treatment by having its data excluded from the data cap. This means that people with a data cap have a strong incentive to use WhatsApp. How much did WhatsApp/Facebook/Meta pay for that, I wonder? My (infinitely patient) wife (waited for me to stop swearing and) informed me that this is the standard in Switzerland.
- At any rate, what is the point of telling me about WhatsApp being “included” in one of the four main points of the plan when the plan is explicitly for unlimited bandwidth? Thanks, UPC, ∞ − WhatsApp Bandwidth still equals ∞.