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Re:Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their ke... by feanaro on Monday December 13, 2021 @05:31PM (#29545549)
> Won’t be long before they have 5G chips in and that isn’t your choice anymore. Kindles have done that since 3G

How do these things work? Do they have a contract with a phone service operator in each country in the world for unlimited data, or what?

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Re:Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their ke... by ravel-bar-foo on Monday December 13, 2021 @09:07PM (#29547329)
The device company usually has a bulk data contract with a large telecom. It isn't unusual for IoT device companies to end up as minor telecom providers themselves, buying bandwidth in bulk and reselling it to consumers.
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