Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 10 months agoThis 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 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@lemmy.world 10 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 😂😭