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by pcthrowaway 1002 days ago
Your phone never needs (nor gets) a public IP either.

Pretty much every cell network gives the phone an IP on the subnet, and then uses NAT, or CG-NAT[1] to share the same public IPs for multiple mobile devices.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT