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by rdancer 3693 days ago
Don't they traffic shape and have much lower speeds, though? If everybody in a building used mobile data at the full speed, where would the telcos put the base stations? And since the frequency spectrum is shared, how many handsets can a 3G or 4G base station even accommodate at once at a full speed?

Unlimited data with tethering is a recipe for disaster; capped data plans usually do have tethering.