• moldy912@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Question: you have their number right so you can still technically text/iMessage them right? I believe pictures are the only issue because European phone plans don’t have unlimited picture texting or something?

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      1 year ago

      Yes, we can all do it, we just don’t, it’s just not popular. In Spain in particular, whatsapp is the king. Most of people have limited, but good enough amount of gigas to spend. I have 30 per month and I never use it. Fun fact, Orange here labels it: “unlimited data (30GB)”

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        1 year ago

        It’s kind of the same in the US. Our “unlimited” data plans have secret limits. You don’t pay extra once you hit it, but the carriers will slow you down to unusable speeds. And also for tethering, there’s usually a hard limit where they will charge you more once you exceed your plan’s tethering limit.

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            1 year ago

            Traditionally the “limit” was a point in which they’d either shut off your data for the month, or charge you an overage fee. Nowadays there’s no fee and they won’t shut off your data. You might be limited to 600 kbps but you can continue to use the web.

            With my Verizon plan, I think my limit is 22GB before they start throttling.