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Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by xexers on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:25PM (#16386287)
It could be that many of these companies want to keep the caps low so that you need to purchase both home internet and mobile internet. If I had a 100gb cap, I'd ditch my home DSL and simply use my phone as a hotspot all the time.

Here in Canada, Bell & Rogers own both the cellular networks and the home internet networks. They are highly incented to sell you BOTH.

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Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by rayiner on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:36PM (#16386828)
That doesn’t make any sense. Here in the US, Verizon and AT&T don’t offer home Internet in the vast majority of the country, and Sprint and T-Mobile don’t offer it at all. The wireline divisions of AT&T and Verizon also make very little of the companies’ profits (Verizon’s wireline profit margin is typically 2-5%). Goldman Sachs has been trying to get Verizon to sell its wireline division for years. Why would it sandbag it’s wireless service to prop up its wireline division?
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Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by xexers on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:13PM (#16387172)
You're probably right. I'm just throwing out a hypothesis.
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