• Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    6 months ago

    That’s all nice and good until you realize that when the cable goes out the cell service immediately slows to a crawl as the whole neighbourhood switches to backup Internet all at the same time, as already happens when the cable goes out.

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    6 months ago

    I’d be willing to pay $30/year for that service, but they’re insane if they think I would spend that monthly for something I hardly ever use.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    So it’s a worse plan than a month of prepaid internet via hotspot you buy (once), which is (usually) a worse deal than just running a hotspot on your phone or cellular laptop as needed.

    So uhhhhhhhhhhhh is the target market people who can’t do addition and subtraction, or…?