What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

  • Flying SquidOP
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    213 months ago

    The concept of abusing unlimited data makes no sense.

    • @IamAnonymous
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      3 months ago

      It’s unlimited data for your phone and not for all the devices you can connect to. I agree with your sentiment. Just trying to point what the companies have in their ToS. I will be glad to hotspot to all my devices from my phone and not pay for WiFi.

    • @whoreticulture
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      3 months ago

      This might not apply everywhere, but I live in a rural area and actually most of my Internet used is through cell networks. When there are a lot of people in the area for some reason, I’m much more likely to lose service completely for web and calls.

      I don’t think that a reliable network is the reason why communications companies are limiting people’s data, I think they’re doing it for profit, but it could be a rationale to do so. It’s not unreasonable to think that there can’t be “unlimited” anything without some kind of impact.

      • Flying SquidOP
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        43 months ago

        But isn’t limiting an unlimited service a form of false advertising? I’m sure they’d argue that a ToS was signed, but I don’t know that you can legally bind people to accept a false advertisement.

        • @whoreticulture
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          23 months ago

          Yeah you don’t have to make that point to me. I’m just saying there could be a legitimate reason to want to make service limits. Obviously, if they really wanted to limit service to prevent network outages, I wouldn’t be getting network outages 😂😭