I believe your answer sits in the terms of service, Legal talk allows anyone to say anything as long as they explain it in detail in the legal documents. I agree with Dennis the data your app reads is at application level, allot more data is consumed by underlying technologies.

I would like to ask Networking experts to detail how or whether the data rates between two nodes would tally, this is in reference to ack's, retries, dropped packets e.t.c

When you buy data packages locally (except saf) you pay against speed 10k for 64kbps, abroad (read online) you buy in data bundles e.g. 2TB transfer / month. I would guess ISP/s pay for data bundles not speed.

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