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unlimited data

Unlimited data is a mobile-data offer that allows the customer to use data on a mobile network without a set maximum amount during a billing period.

In plain English

This is a type of mobile plan allowance for internet use on the network. The key point is that it does not set a fixed amount of data the customer can use within one billing period.

In context

In promotional copy, “unlimited data” names a plan data offer with no set maximum amount of mobile data for the billing period.

Situation
Choosing mobile plans, allowances, roaming, fair-use, and add-ons
What it communicates
names a plan data offer in promotional copy.

Meaning limits

By itself, the term does not establish any other term of the offer beyond the absence of a set maximum data amount in the billing period.

Examples

“Her contract includes unlimited data instead of a 20 GB monthly allowance.”

Core meaning

“The brochure advertises unlimited data on the higher monthly plan.”

In context