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Drop them. Take the hit for once and do the right thing. If this is your provider, give them the message.
by upsidesinclude 4y ago
Drop them.
Take the hit for once and do the right thing.
If this is your provider, give them the message.
- Krasnol 4y agoEasy to say but hard to do since there are pretty much just 3 mobile providers in Germany. Those two and one with a shitty network (Telefonica-O2).
- thisiscorrect 4y agoWould using a "multiplexing" carrier like Google Fi (I don't know the real term for it) that can switch between several others at least reduce the value of this tracking?
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoIt'll reduce the value the high-level carrier derives at minimum.
- juunpp 4y agoYou're not suggesting to use Google Fi to reduce tracking, right? In any case, multiplexing wouldn't stop the tracking, and they might as well figure out just as much about you.
- junon 4y agoHad Google Fi when I moved to Germany from the US. They cut off my service because it wasn't allowed to live in Germany and use them. Worked for a year then woke up day to have no phone number anymore and a completely rude support rep. So, no. This isn't an option.
- Arnt 4y agoI did it and have been so happy. My family's now a "small business" with a business-only MVNO. Recommended.
- solarkraft 4y agoThe Telefonica network isn't that bad where I am. I'm with an MVNO (Drillisch/premiumsim/discotel/sim.de/whatever shady awful brand you can think of) on that network and am pretty okay with it. They have the best prices (only ones I'd consider reasonable) and are starting to build their own network. ... maybe I should check whether they're doing this stuff too. My experience with them makes me believe "absolutely" (they're annoying to deal with, but hey, they're following the law).
- fithisux 4y agoThis is called capitalism. Reduction and not increase of choice.
- upsidesinclude 4y agoPlease elaborate. The telecom industry is highly subsidized, controlled and regulated by government. Capitalism is not very well represented by the standards of the industry
- Aachen 4y ago> and one with a shitty network (Telefonica-O2). This is the opinion of every German I've ever met, but as an outsider who formed their opinion before hearing the public's opinion, O2 gives me consistently better signal than my work phone where my boss decided to go with Telekom for some reason I have yet to ask after (but, knowing germans, I have a suspicion). This is in NRW mostly (both cities and forested area), can't remember if it was different in Frankfurt or Stuttgart, so at least not noticeably worse I guess. The fairly recent (like, after people formed this opinion) merger with E+ probably helped, if I remember this provider's history correctly.