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Don’t get it from your carrier unless you’re ok with it being locked down in weird ways. For instance: hot spotting works great on my iPhone that I got straight from Apple, and my mobile isp is Verizon. I know someone who’s in the same boat, but got their phone from Verizon, and hot spotting does not work.
How the fuck is this a thing? How are they allowed to control how I use my data?
The phone pulls carrier specific settings based on SIM card carrier data. Apple allows the carrier to set a hotspot block
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You gave them permission when you signed the deal. Pretty simple.
It's pretty common to buy phones from electronics stores in Denmark, without a carrier attached. So locking down the phone isn't as common here, but that doesn't mean that ISPs aren't still up to no good. I heard about one company that would look at the IP header and if your packets came with a TTL of 63 or less, then the ISP would know that you had a tethered connection and would count the traffic differently.
I share your bafflement; it is nonetheless very much a real thing.