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Re: 5G roadblock: labor
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 07:09:00 +0200
On 3/Jan/20 17:38, Paul Nash wrote:
They’d probably choose whichever popped un onto the device first.
I don't know about Android-based phones, but my iPhone ALWAYS wants wi-fi, whether it came before or after GSM. At times, the prompting to say, "Hey, there is a wi-fi hot spot right here, do you want to connect to it" can be quite annoying. For example, Diners Club partners with a ton of wi-fi networks around the world, and the moment I am in a location where my phone (and the Diners Club app) detect a wi-fi AP that is in their partner pool, it wants me to connect to it. And it just works...
FWIW, Rogers in Canada are moving to unlimited cellular data, with a monthly threshold, beyond which they reserve the right to throttle (but do not always throttle). Bell probably do something similar. The threshold increases with the number of devices on the account, and any throttling applies to all devices on that account.
If I'm honest, to me, that just sounds like a marketing ploy... call it unlimited to bring them on, but when things get tight and we need to throttle back (which WILL, not MAY) happen, hey, we told them so. And to be fair, if they get customers on the back of that, more power to them. I'm not one to hate clever business practices :-). Mark.
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- Re: 5G roadblock: labor, (continued)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Christopher Morrow (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Jan 04)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Paul Nash (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Radu-Adrian Feurdean (Jan 03)
- RE: 5G roadblock: labor Keith Medcalf (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Radu-Adrian Feurdean (Jan 06)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Christopher Morrow (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Andrey Kostin (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Sabri Berisha (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Ca By (Jan 03)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor William Herrin (Jan 03)