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  • You and Op are both right; for my example Mint’s home “internet” is unlimited data but in the fine print it’s a 1TB cap per month after which your data/traffic may be shaped, slowed, deprioritized, etc. Obviously only a marketer would call that “unlimited”, though I doubt most average users would hit 1tb in a month unless hosting, massively to renting, etc. which is not the mandatory use case for most on Frugal.

    Also, the cell towers have fiber run to them so wouldn’t they have the same theoretical bandwidth to the tower as a fiber line? Obviously from the tower to your wireless 5g gateway you’ve got signal strength and normal degradation, but I’d guess the actual “limit” to a 5g tower and the number of simultaneous connections it can handle is probably not an issue for the majority of sites not in a densely urban area.