I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.

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What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

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And more competition.

T-Mobile hasn’t done this for years. Att is just shit

When T-Mobile moved to unlimited with the ONE plans, they gave You "unlimited" tethering at "3G speeds", which turned out to be 0.5Mbit/s, an unusably slow speed in 2018.

The Magenta plans gave you 5GB-50GB of full-speed tethering before dropping you to "3G speeds". The current Go5G plans are similar, with a limited amount of usable tethering data before you're, for all practical uses, cut off.

Before the ONE plans, there technically was no hotspot usage limit, but since you had a limited amount of high-speed data, your hotspot was effectively limited to whatever your plan gave you.

All the US carriers limit hotspot usage, partly to prevent someone hooking up a computer to download 50TB of pirated movies while clogging up the bandwidth for everyone else on that tower, and (moreso) partly because they're greedy.

If it were just bandwidth issues, they'd only limit you during times of congestion.

It's pure greed.

3g speeds are fine, no clue what you’re talking about. I literally tether all the time and when I hit the limit it’s still completely usable, even for YouTube. And getting to that limit is well above the 5gb from ATT. Like I said, att is shit, T-Mobile doesn’t do this and hasn’t for years.

Literally every carrier on the planet limits hotspot data in some manner. This isn’t a US thing.

Lol. They totally do. Their best plan without going arm and a leg for unlimited gives you 50GB a month before dropping to near nothing. Up to a year ago it was 40GB.

50gb is not even close to 5gb and 3g speeds are not even close to 128kbs so no, T-Mobile doesn’t do this.

T mobile has low GB plans that are far less than 40 or 50 GB and 3g is capable of over 3Mbps, so I don't know what dumbassery you're talking about.

128kbps is referring to the ATT limitation so you’re just proving my point. T-Mobile doesn’t do what att does.