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by cobookman 1626 days ago
...they throttle at the phone-number/SIM. Even with a VPN your phone is still auth'ing itself to the cell towers, and those towers know what device is sending which traffic.

What this prevents is allowing say Youtube to pay TMobile to never throttle their traffic.

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I know from firsthand experience that Verizon at least can and did do more circa 2016.