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

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      it’s not especially in the US, i’ve seen ISPs essentially break kneecaps forcing the consume to pay for the initial hook up, and then immediately rolling it out to every available house in the subdivision or neighborhood.

      That shit should be illegal. If you do the math on how long it would take to profit from running it yourself it’s only a few years given an ENTIRE neighborhood.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      7 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.