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Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.

IamAnonymous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s to stop people from abusing unlimited data on their cellphone for all their WiFi devices at home. I know a person who did not have WiFi at home and only used their cellphone data. You are using more than a typical cellphone user and also you are cutting them an opportunity to sell you a WiFi plan for your home. It’s annoying, but as I understand it, this is the reason.

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The concept of abusing unlimited data makes no sense.

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- IamAnonymous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s unlimited data for your phone and not for all the devices you can connect to. I agree with you 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.
  
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- PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “all you can eat”
  
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- whoreticulture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.
    
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    whoreticulture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 😂😭
    
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starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You are using more than a typical cell phone user

But it still costs the ISP effectively nothing to send those 1s and 0s. This is like complaining about someone having a bunch of fans on because they’re using more air than the average person.

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- IamAnonymous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I never implied that. Ask the ISP why they have separate hotspot / tablet / watch plans.
  
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