If you are offering a 20GB plan, just say you are offering a 20GB plan.
I've tried to use a 4G hotspot to setup my laptop and do work in outdoor parks but the number of times I can do that per month is limited.
For example, they can no longer advertise the "up to" speeds, they have to use the "typical evening speed", which is what's more relevant to the actual experience.
If you want an interesting test, find someone with a Telstra post-paid plan, and get a Boost Mobile SIM in another phone. Run speedtests side by side. Boost, although it's technically Telstra Pre-Paid, seems to be heavily throttled.
A mate works for Optus and had for a while a bunch of different iPhones of the same generation for testing.
Each had the same OS version/etc.
One on Optus Business, one on Retail Postpaid and one on a reseller (iirc Virgin).
Speed tests side by side were pretty interesting. You could quite clearly see the business service was getting prioritisation over all the others. Retail was generally better than the Reseller by quite a margin. Some locations (like shopping centres) would restrict the reseller from working at all, and retail would be clamped down on bandwidth.
i.e take the phones out, and run all the speed tests at once - the business plan was guaranteed to run faster.
It wasn't like it was an issue with one particular phone just being better - you could swap the sim cards between phones and no matter what device the business sim was in, it got the best throughput.
How they actually implemented it I don't know, all we could go on was based on some testing from an end-user perspective.
It wasn't done as a "isn't that interesting" thing, it was because of some specific problem with a client that was reporting poor performance.
There should be a real financial incentive to upgrade their lousy infrastructure.
Trouble is that the politicians are some of the worst offenders when it comes to deceptive advertising.
Throttled is still unlimited in the same way as any other connection. Your connection is always throttled, it's just a question if there are two different speeds with the latter triggering after a particular threshold.
What you are looking for is competition, and lower barriers to entry.
The UK used to be famous for really confusing strategies, like bogus discounts (50% off on an item that's just priced 2x normal), or buy-3-get-5 offers, that sometimes mysteriously wouldn't be registered at checkout.
The UK regulator often dinged the supermarkets for such behaviour, and gave them various stipulations. But as far as I can tell, they only really got better when Aldi and Lidl seriously started taking market share.
Aldi and Lidl have a very German no-nonsense approach to advertising. There's a single simple price that you pay.
Similarly in the UK, the regulator always told off the retail banks for their bad behaviour, but they never really changed their tune much. I am hoping that challengers like Monzo are changing that. (I left the UK nearly three years ago, so I don't know how retail banking has come along in the meantime.)
UK retail banks usually advertise that their accounts are 'free', but then have lots of hidden fees. Monzo doesn't have those hidden fees. (Eg when you try to make a transfer when you are out of money, Monzo just fails your transfer. My previous British retail banks charged you for that. And they typically gave you an 'unarranged overdraft' that you couldn't decline.)
Keep in mind that these are two examples of the top of my head. You can probably find more with a more scientific inquiry.
> It seems to me that it mostly leads to a race to the bottom that just optimizes for hiding your dishonesty better.
Do you have any examples of that?
Competition usually leads to customers getting more of what they are willing to pay for. Of course, that's not always what customers say they want, if you ask them outright.
(Eg Starbucks sells well. But what they are selling is not what people say they value in coffee.
I wouldn't call that dishonesty on Starbucks site. People pay for having a spot with free wifi to idle or work while sipping some acceptable beverages. People who go to Starbucks are not there to satisfy a distinguished taste in coffee. But Starbucks advertisement compliments on their good taste, anyway.)
The bitrate you get when most plans throttle is 128Kbps, less than a tenth of that speed.