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Re:Comcast Enters Wireless Business With $45-a-Month Service by gm-conspiracy on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:20AM (#14051325)
...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.

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Re:Comcast Enters Wireless Business With $45-a-Month Service by joecool1029 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @12:01PM (#14051771)
> 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

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Re:Comcast Enters Wireless Business With $45-a-Month Service by dylz on Thursday April 06, 2017 @01:22PM (#14052570)
This is amusing because you can get unfiltered internet roaming in China if you bring a foreign sim, apparently
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