I'll just say, I've had my laptop connecting to my phone on tethering 24x7 for years now, since before the pandemic, on a relatively low cost unlimited data con

I'll just say, I've had my laptop connecting to my phone on tethering 24x7 for years now, since before the pandemic, on a relatively low cost unlimited data contract. I use cellular for both my home and office internet connections, as well as when travelling. My Macbook knows to connect to my Android phone automatically. Latency isn't great, but everything else works pretty well. I've done a few remote jobs and contracts just fine since using this setup. All the usual daily video standups, meetings, Git, remote builds, etc. No other internet unless there's something convenient where I travel to. At home I terminated the ADSL I used previously, because its bandwidth was worse, usually, and I decided it wasn't worth the cost of the line. I miss the better latency though. At the office I tried to get ADSL (actually FTTC), but the providers were unable to offer above 17 Mbit/s despite being a town centre building, compared with 90 Mbit/s over cellular on a good day, so I stayed with cellular for the office too. Tethering is so automatic and convenient nowadays that I relate to the folks who don't see a point paying for a second cellular contract just for convenience. I never have my Macbook without my phone nearby, and connection is automatic. There are occasions when a large antenna might work better, though, if the laptop is well designed. Someone wrote an interesting point that phones get newer cellular standards more quickly than laptops in practice. This is surely true when using very expensive Macbooks! I can imagine having great cellular connectivity in a laptop when it's new, and five years later finding the same laptop communicates over tethering faster than natively. I've seen enormous variation in the bandwidth achieved by different devices already: ~90 Mbit/s on my last phone, vs ~18 Mbit/s on a dedicated 4G hotspot of the same era.