Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn’t? I understand bandwidth limits, but how can home internet get away with giving users all the data they can use, but cell phone providers can’t?

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    21 days ago

    cell phone providers can, they just won’t (would eat into their profits)

    and most of the home internet sold as “unlimited” was a scam – if you started to get too close to some hidden value, they would start throttling your connection

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 days ago

      'Member when Comcast was caught illegally using Sandvine in around 2006/2007 to illegally throttle or block BitTorrent traffic?

      Pepperidge Farm Remembers.