It's all still limited by the throughout of the phone though. You could just as well open 4 streaming apps on the phone and pull the same data. To me, metering

It's all still limited by the throughout of the phone though. You could just as well open 4 streaming apps on the phone and pull the same data. To me, metering a "tethered" connection differently than the phone making the same requests is just as disgusting as an ISP charging you because you have a different number of computers connected to the internet on your residential connection. Or charging you more because you went to a streaming site. It's a blatant violation of net neutrality. If a cell phone company can't fulfill their advertised service of x mbit down / y mbit up, they shouldn't be offering it. Anything else is false advertising.