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T-Mobile hopes you’ll buy $30 “Home Internet Backup” for when cable goes out

Backup plan is $30 every month for service that's meant to be used infrequently.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/t-mobile-says-30-month-backup-5g-is-the-solution-to-home-internet-outages/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

SDWolf ,
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@arstechnica Not a bad idea if your ISP is... Comcastic.

errhead ,
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I worked for a company that sold a lot of backup internet devices to businesses

Cool thing, when the cable or fiber goes out in an area, it tends to go out for a lot of people. All the cellular backups and hotspots try to go online at the same time blitzing the cell towers and providing horrible service and minimal bandwidth.

MylesRyden ,
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Let's see...if I recall correctly my internet may have been out approximately 12-24 hours over the course of the past year. Of course my phone had service most of those hours.

$360/year to make sure my tablet isn't down for 12 hours. Seems like a good deal.

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