It was in the terms & conditions of contracts as just that - providers were just lax in enforcing it.
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Lax in enforcing it and lax in advertising that fact.
Making it clear and enforcing it would have cut into profit. And that is the problem that I have with them on this. Had they made it clear from the beginning things would have most likely been different. But they did not and now we're where we are.
As far as Verizon goes due to the agreement they signed to purchase spectrum they are not allow to block tethering apps or users tethering unofficially.
Other carrier can block or kick out of unlimited users that tether unofficially like AT&T did in the past and switched them to metered data plan.
I think I have heard that T-Mobile's limit (yes, a limit on unlimited data) is 2TB.
Sprint sends you a notice if you are in the top 5 percent of data consumers during the month. They cut you the following month if you remain within that 5 percent.
Sprint sends you a notice if you are in the top 5 percent of data consumers during the month. They cut you the following month if you remain within that 5 percent.
How is 100Mbps+ slow on a phone? What do you do on a phone that requires faster speeds where you need to utilize your home WiFi instead?
I can understand if he was tethering his home computers to his phone, but why is it frowned upon by you if he decides to consume his phone content when connected to cellular vs WiFi? With cellular, he can watch his content whenever he chooses, rather than be limited to home, work, school, or a reliable and secure public hotspot.
To be fair I think part of the implication (at least in some of the posts) was that it was being used for things beyond the phone.
Your cable internet may be faster, but my cable internet bill is non-existent.
Perhaps it's just my ignorance in what people are doing with their devices these days. For me, whether I'm streaming music, Netflix, YouTube, gaming, browsing, etc....100 Mbps seems excessively sufficient. Those saying it's slow compared to their 500 mbps seemingly are seeking a dick measuring contest. Hell I remember the days of edge, 3G, and 3mbps. To think lives still went on...
Like someone mentioned earlier, you can burn through 1GB or more in just an hour of streaming Netflix. If you streamed a movie every night, that's well over 50GB/month already, plus everything else you use your phone for.
But I have 12 devices hooked up to my home internet and I don't have to kill my phone battery in the process. All devices can d/l all day 24x7 at max without worry.
Seems like that would be 100, per earlier post at https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...d-for-high-usage-users.1983688/#post-23148557
I apologize I didn't explain my question very clearly. I can certainly see how folks (myself included) can burn through data quickly. I average 20-30gb monthly usage myself. Where I'm perplexed is how there are some, well one, saying that 100 Mbps is a slow and unacceptable speed. I can't understand why you'd need faster service speeds than that?
I totally read your comment as 100GB. No idea why...
I used my iPhone 5s as a hotspot for a year and the battery was still in really good health. I'm not worried about it.
I can leave the house and my devices still function is the point. Hey if your scenario works for you great, I have a 24x7 internet connected house and I can reach my desktop in the field via open VPN.
Even our slow cooker can be controlled via wifi from anywhere there is service, my wife has the app on her phone.
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Yeah, see that doesn't matter to me at all. But I normally do leave my phone at home with the hotspot turned on. I have multiple phones and I just take a different phone out with me when I go out usually. I have free service on two other phones.
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