Re:Comcast Enters Wireless Business With $45-a-Month Service
by imglorp on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:03AM
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How would an MVNO prevent its upstream provider from doing bullshit on the data? It seems like each provider in the path to the backbone has the opportunity, means, and motivation.
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Re:Comcast Enters Wireless Business With $45-a-Month Service
by joecool1029 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:10AM
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Depends on the type of MVNO. Branded resellers really can't do shit to stop their parent provider from doing bullshit, but Comcast is likely going to fall into the Full MVNO category and tunnel all the traffic into their network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operato...
Re:Comcast Enters Wireless Business With $45-a-Month Service
by seibelj on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:05AM
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VPN? Sign a contract with one of the providers to not track the data? Start thinking like an entrepreneur! There is an unmet need, go meet the need and work through the problems.
Re:Comcast Enters Wireless Business With $45-a-Month Service
by gm-conspiracy on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:20AM
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...or point-to-point IP connection, so the device count not reach the general internet, just your white-listed endpoint?
I just want a pipe.
Re:Comcast Enters Wireless Business With $45-a-Month Service
by joecool1029 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @12:01PM
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> I just want a pipe.
Mobile providers don't work like that though. Even when roaming international, there is a tunnel back to your home provider. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRS_Tunnelling_Protocol