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Your personal usage does not align with the majority. Look at tiktok, it’s social media based around endless video files. It’s not an occasional text or email, it’s hundreds of videos that your constantly scrolling through.

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Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The carriers love to brag about high capacity and fast speeds but they’re still unwilling to deliver the bandwidth. They’re all advertising “unlimited” data but if you scroll TikTok for a while they’ll block your line for “excessive” data usage or throttle you down to 256kb/s.

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- LightningSteve@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve only had this happen when using my phone as a hotspot
  
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solrize@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
OK, good point. Are people using mobile data for that? Yes you’re right I’m not on social media etc. Also I’m on a super cheap mobile plan with enough monthly data to check email and look at some web pages, but if I want to watch a video I almost always use home internet for that. I guess if this super high bandwidth mobile stuff kills Comcast though, some good will have come out of it. The Register article talks mostly about IoT and “AI/ML” rather than social media though.

Is 5g mobile data cheaper for the end user than 4g in practice? The sticker prices and advertised data caps for monthly plans look to me to be about the same as before, but maybe more of the data cap is usable in practice.

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- fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  OK, good point. Are people using mobile data for that?
  
  Unlimited data. You do whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want.
  
  I haven’t seen any carriers charging extra for 5g but I don’t see why it would be more expensive since the quicker you’re done using the data the quicker the tower can serve someone else.
  
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  - solrize@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s what I mean, it seems to cost as much as before. I was hoping to hear that it had gotten a lot cheaper, not stayed the same. Ideally, it should be pervasive and free, but I don’t mind in that case if it is relatively slow.
    
    Every “unlimited” mobile plan I’ve heard of has fine print that says it slows to a crawl after some amount. I don’t know if the real limits are different in practice, so I was asking about that.
    
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    SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Every “unlimited” mobile plan I’ve heard of has fine print that says it slows to a crawl after some amount. I don’t know if the real limits are different in practice, so I was asking about that.
    
    These days you just get “deprioritized” instead of a hard throttle on most unlimited plans after reaching the amount. Deprioritized means the network treats your data as less important so if the tower gets congested it’ll slow down otherwise it’s still full speed.
    
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MedievalGamer@lemmyhub.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The real problem is that people are too lazy to read. Endless video, who is tiktok targeted to? This is bad news for attention spans and your ability to work. Just try to look at how much information you can retain from a video compared to a paragraph of text.

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