return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoGoogle Fi is launching a $35 / month unlimited planwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareoyo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoBut it doesn’t include tethering/hotspot. WTF? That’s a feature of my phone, not of a fucking plan.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoWhy is this a thing for US phone networks? Why do they care whether the ones and zeroes sent/received stay on the phone or not? Data is data. It shouldn’t be any more complicated than that.
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoBecause they can. I have the same gripe.
minus-squarejoshchandra@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoMaybe they are in bed with ISPs.
minus-squaretwisterpop3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoSome of them are ISPs. I’ve received mail from both Verizon and AT&T about getting a 5G Internet “connection”. It just connects to the cell towers. Someone came by so I demoed one and it was awful. The latency was, predictably, unhinged.
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoBecause it’s not illegal to bill you extra for it.
But it doesn’t include tethering/hotspot. WTF? That’s a feature of my phone, not of a fucking plan.
Why is this a thing for US phone networks?
Why do they care whether the ones and zeroes sent/received stay on the phone or not? Data is data. It shouldn’t be any more complicated than that.
Because they can. I have the same gripe.
Maybe they are in bed with ISPs.
Some of them are ISPs. I’ve received mail from both Verizon and AT&T about getting a 5G Internet “connection”. It just connects to the cell towers.
Someone came by so I demoed one and it was awful. The latency was, predictably, unhinged.
Money. Simple as that.
Because it’s not illegal to bill you extra for it.