Seems to me they're getting ready to phase out hotspot service and replace it with this home internet backup (which is just a very expensive hotspot service). Enshitification is intensifying pretty hard in 2024.
How common are these outages? My ISP provides a SIM with unlimited data for extended outages (like more than a day). This price doesn't make sense for smaller outages.
Edit: so, this is a video from the show Parks and Rec, where some soulless capitalist is selling regular milk as the "hot new craze, beef milk", and only one person in the scene sees how ridiculous this is ("that's ffing milk", he says). The others lap it right up, pun intended ("no. milk cost $3 a gallon. Annabelle's authentic, hand-strained, teet-to-table beef milk: that costs $60 a gallon. yeah, and there's a waitlist"). I thought it was a good analogy to what is happening with this tmo situation.
So I have T-Mobile in a major city. Whenever my ISP goes down, my normally fast 5G slows to a crawl due to the increased load.
So it seems like when you need this the most is when youd get the worst performance.
