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

  • @[email protected]
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    578 months ago

    My ISP’s a dick, but to my knowledge, unlimited has to mean unlimited around here. There where months where we had Problems with our fibre, so I did everything over a hotspot from my phone. Used 100’s of GB’s no one ever complained.

    Get proper consumer protection laws, people.

    • @[email protected]
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      148 months ago

      Get proper consumer protection laws, people.

      And if you’re homeless, just buy a house 🫶

      • @[email protected]
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        88 months ago

        It wasn’t supposed to be quite serious, but yeah, depending on where you live it’s pretty much a lost cause, at least in the short-, or even mid-term.

    • @[email protected]
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      118 months ago

      unlimited has to mean unlimited around here.

      This is the case in a lot of countries. In Australia, some ISPs got fined a lot of money (something like $300,000 I think?) because they advertised mobile phone plans as “unlimited” when in reality they slowed down the speed once you hit a limit.

      • @[email protected]
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        58 months ago

        Dunno if 300k is necessarily a lot for an ISP, but having rules and fining firms for non-compliance is pretty nice.

        • @[email protected]
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          48 months ago

          The maximum ISPs could be fined for misleading/deceptive conduct (including things like this) was $1.1 million at the time, and I don’t think they considered this bad enough to hand out the maximum fine. They bumped the maximum to $10 million at some point afterwards though.

    • @[email protected]
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      78 months ago

      Get proper consumer protection laws, people.

      California is trying its best, but I’m not sure the other US states will get onboard (except New York, and maybe Oregon and Washington state).

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        48 months ago

        Yeah. I mean, the state I live in right now just passed a bill to forbid officers of the state from using gender neutral, but technically grammatically incorrect language, while the ruling party is campaigning on not being a party of bans, while claiming their rivals are, so things aren’t all that green here either.

        I say take the wins you can get.