Mobile Hotspot Throttling Renders Unlimited Plans Unusable
Carriers advertise unlimited hotspot plans but throttle speeds to sub-functional levels after a threshold, despite billing customers for full-speed service. In practice, throttled connections fail to load basic web pages, making remote work impossible. The gap between advertised capability and real-world performance is not clearly disclosed at purchase.
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