That sounds like a protection racket.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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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.
Will they also shield us from their data breaches?
Boom roasted
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.
TIL Hotspot is now called Home Internet Backup.
Because a hotspot is free or discounted!
But Home Internet Backup? $30 a month EZ.
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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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.
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?
It's common for that user, not the US.
We get an outage every month or so, I blame construction, but I honestly don't know.
Will they shield me from their outages?
lol, i already have an extra 5G router for less and unlimited volume 🤣
Fuck no.
American internet prices are wild.
That’s what the mobile hotspot feature is for on the cellphone you’re already paying for.
You mean the VPN I pay for that hides the fact I'm using my phone as a hotspot?
Wait, you have to pay to use your phone as a hotspot?!
You get a few gigs for free then they charge you out the ass.
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.
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.
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.