Hypothetically if they were doing that, they’d only be ‘banning’ that mobile network in the ‘paywall-relaxing-for-Googlebot’ code - not banning the IP traffic o

Hypothetically if they were doing that, they’d only be ‘banning’ that mobile network in the ‘paywall-relaxing-for-Googlebot’ code - not banning the IP traffic or serving a 403 or anything. They ordinarily throw paywalls at those users anyway.