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Ask HN: Do phone calls count toward your data?

• gnicholas 3y ago
  If 5G calls count against my cap, I'd just as soon set my phone to LTE only, since I don't really need 5G speeds anyway. Seems like just a ploy to be able to nickel and dime customers, and start charging for phone calls that carriers used to tout as free/unlimited.
• akerl_ 3y ago
  It sounds like they previously were giving you 5G data usage for free. There's nothing about calling in the quote you provided, it specifically references 5G data.
  • gnicholas 3y ago
    That's the thing — I have a hard time believing this would have been true. They never told us they were giving us 5G data for free, and we definitely used plenty of data. I would expect they would have bragged about how nice they are in giving us 5G data for free if they had been doing it. And I would have expected a noticeable drop in data charges if it had been free. I will go back and look at bills for the phones on our account that can use 5G data to see if there are any patterns. > There's nothing about calling in the quote you provided, it specifically references 5G data. That's true. I couldn't tell if they were just obfuscating. I don't know what those terms mean, if they're only related to voice calls, or if by specifying these they're saying that all data flowing over 5G+ will now be billed (including voice).
• wmf 3y ago
  That's a bizarre sentence to send to customers, as if they have any understanding of radio bands. I see nothing about calls here (VoNR calls should not be limited to particular bands) and phone calls use virtually no bandwidth anyway.
  • akerl_ 3y ago
    The sentence doesn't expect people to understand radio bands: > (indicated by 5G+ on your device)