• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    OK, good point. Are people using mobile data for that?

    Unlimited data. You do whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want.

    I haven’t seen any carriers charging extra for 5g but I don’t see why it would be more expensive since the quicker you’re done using the data the quicker the tower can serve someone else.

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      10 months ago

      That’s what I mean, it seems to cost as much as before. I was hoping to hear that it had gotten a lot cheaper, not stayed the same. Ideally, it should be pervasive and free, but I don’t mind in that case if it is relatively slow.

      Every “unlimited” mobile plan I’ve heard of has fine print that says it slows to a crawl after some amount. I don’t know if the real limits are different in practice, so I was asking about that.

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        10 months ago

        Every “unlimited” mobile plan I’ve heard of has fine print that says it slows to a crawl after some amount. I don’t know if the real limits are different in practice, so I was asking about that.

        These days you just get “deprioritized” instead of a hard throttle on most unlimited plans after reaching the amount. Deprioritized means the network treats your data as less important so if the tower gets congested it’ll slow down otherwise it’s still full speed.

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          At work we have phones that are web crawlers and they each use 50+ gigs of data per month so they’re well within the deprioritized zone. But even then they still get really good speeds unless the network is super congested for some reason.