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I'm very confused - isn't this how phones work right now? Sans the dynamic cost marketplace of course - usually the phone sticks to the network of the sim card

by rcbdev 3y ago

I'm very confused - isn't this how phones work right now? Sans the dynamic cost marketplace of course - usually the phone sticks to the network of the sim card you've currently got slotted in, except when Roam-Like-At-Home kicks in. But you can manually select whichever network you want in theory. European here and not an expert on this, maybe it's different in the US or I'm gravely misunderstanding something.

throwaway11460 3y ago
(EU citizen too) You can't select any network, your home carrier has to have an agreement with the network you select. They're talking about switching operators, not roaming - roaming means your traffic is still routed to your own provider. The concept, if I understand it correctly, is that you'd pay the best offered rate per byte around you at the moment, and your phone would be dynamically switching networks based on the offers. The problem with this is that unlimited plans would go out of the Windows and we'd be back to paying per byte. Not great imho.