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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by alphabettsy on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:33PM (#38284420)
Yes, they usually are.

Some offer premium data which is prioritized but whether or not that’s the same priority as post-paid traffic is not clear.

Even on post-paid, the plan you’re on can determine network priority. I usually carry two phones and sometimes the MVNO SIM data is completely unusable.

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by lxgr on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:42PM (#38284497)
> premium data which is prioritized but whether or not that’s the same priority as post-paid traffic is not clear.

The details are a bit sparse, but sometimes it's possible to find the QoS class/level listed for a given MVNO and plan, and some of them are indeed identical to that of the network's first-party plans.

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by alphabettsy on Thursday November 16, 2023 @02:48PM (#38294471)
Yea. They should be required to disclose this information.
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