It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone refuses to open one. Everyone responsible for this shit should be fed to alligators locked away in a fucking gulag. We have no rights and live in a corporate plutocracy.
The US carriers have been fighting the battle for years between expanding the networks providing high speed data and competing with other carriers to provide it more cheaply.
If you’re sitting on a plan that’s 5 or 10 years old you could be sitting on a 30 or 60 gig plan where you can do whatever you want with those gigs.
Or you could be sitting on a brand new super cheap plan that blocks you from tethering altogether if they can.
Or you could be sitting on one of their top tier unlimited plans where you can tether up to 20 or 30 gig.
The numbers features and prices seem to change with the wind and they’re not often in the mood to kick you out of your existing plans.
The carriers all have pretty bad capacity issues in urban and rural areas were they either have too many people or not enough towers per square mile. They’re all trying to expand but every time you have a local power outage and everyone tries to use their cell phone at the same time nobody gets through anywhere for data.
Kiwi here. This seems so foreign. All the carriers in New Zealand provide unlimited data for about $USS60 per month, and you can do what you like with it (hotspot etc).
I’m not saying the US has the right of it but you guys need a lot less infrastructure for total coverage.
Yep, fair enough