• vzq@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This sounds really expensive. 5G as a backup makes sense, but 30 bucks is actual primary service money, not just in case money.

    Make it 5 and I would consider it.

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      6 months ago

      Or even 5 flat and 30 for a month when it kicks in or is enabled.

      Edit: ofcourse not when it kicks in if TMobile is also your primary provider. Cause that just invites fuckery.

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      Or even $50 a year with like 5 GB included and pay-as-you-go afterward.

      But yeah, $30/mo is more than I pay for my single line that also includes hotspot.

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    6 months ago

    That’s what the mobile hotspot feature is for on the cellphone you’re already paying for.

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        6 months ago

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIW2tBpnDI

        Edit: so, this is a video from the show Parks and Rec, where some soulless capitalist is selling regular milk as the “hot new craze, beef milk”, and only one person in the scene sees how ridiculous this is (“that’s ffing milk”, he says). The others lap it right up, pun intended (“no. milk cost $3 a gallon. Annabelle’s authentic, hand-strained, teet-to-table beef milk: that costs $60 a gallon. yeah, and there’s a waitlist”). I thought it was a good analogy to what is happening with this tmo situation.

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    6 months ago

    So I have T-Mobile in a major city. Whenever my ISP goes down, my normally fast 5G slows to a crawl due to the increased load. So it seems like when you need this the most is when youd get the worst performance.

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      6 months ago

      I live in the middle of nowhere up a gigantic mountain with gigabit fibre and have literally never once had an internet outage

      WTF is happening in the US that makes outages common?

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    6 months ago

    How common are these outages? My ISP provides a SIM with unlimited data for extended outages (like more than a day). This price doesn’t make sense for smaller outages.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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    Seems to me they’re getting ready to phase out hotspot service and replace it with this home internet backup (which is just a very expensive hotspot service). Enshitification is intensifying pretty hard in 2024.