I understand this argument, but in practice it has never been a factor in my daily usage of the service. I think the bandwidth improvements by providers over th

I understand this argument, but in practice it has never been a factor in my daily usage of the service. I think the bandwidth improvements by providers over the years have made this a mostly academic concern. I live in a major metro area that should theoretically be impacted by sheer volume of use, and I’ve also spent significant time on the road traveling (recent 7K mile overlanding trip through 15 states is one example), and never once experienced a slowdown. Wireless networks are pretty fast these days, and if I’ve ever been throttled, I just haven’t noticed. YMMV, and maybe I don’t have use cases that are impacted by this, but after experiencing what I’ve experienced, I have no questions at all about my decision to move away from the big networks. I’ve used Mint and Xfinity Mobile (Verizon MVNO). > To me, it's like bragging about how cheap airfare is when you go standby: "It's the exact same planes!" The experience and cost of using cheap airfare/standby is pretty well documented and rather dissimilar conceptually to what’s going on with MVNOs. The cheap ticket experience isn’t just “same planes”, it brings with it a very real likelihood of failure and customers generally go in knowing this up front. If MVNOs were unusable as often as standby flights are unavailable, the business model would quickly cease to exist. I find the notion of bragging about any of this for any reason rather odd, but it’s hard to ignore the significant savings over time.