Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Free texting and calling via WiFi? Date: 7 Jan 2017 21:40:03 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <14inehey2olhk.12im0wge5956e.dlg@40tude.net> <050120170949061600%nospam@nospam.invalid> <1lxst9fnyra8l.18klv9288p3ya$.dlg@40tude.net> <060120170023367602%nospam@nospam.invalid> <7t22t1skjb5r.1ucoo7z92rgrj.dlg@40tude.net> <060120172051570614%nospam@nospam.invalid> <7hfcpqn5nc8w.s9yfy7ootopp$.dlg@40tude.net> <070120171405033432%nospam@nospam.invalid> <070120171540045503%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net bx9Iw873LzhmAr1AwIDhLgfTJS4MSTXOm2aMTLE086H1wcEYi1 X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:bX3UKbO1jJG9tAbaeKbV088X4gQ= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-6.2-WOW64/1.5.22(0.156/4/2) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 170107-0, 01/07/2017), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:37532 nospam wrote: > In article , Frank Slootweg > wrote: > > > > > > the first problem is fooling t-mobile into thinking that a usb data > > > > > stick is actually a tablet. despite your claims, it is not. the imei > > > > > indicates what type of device it is, so t-mobile just needs to look up > > > > > the data stick's imei and will see that it's a data stick and not a > > > > > tablet > > > > > > > > Why should they care whether it's an actual tablet or a USB data stick > > > > being used on a tablet? After all, as you write, > > > > > > because, as i explained in the part you snipped, is if they allowed usb > > > sticks, people would abuse it and use it on non-tablets, and that's > > > assuming people can resolve the other issues (not a good assumption). > > > > > > the plan is for tablets. simple as that. tablets come with cellular > > > radios. if the imei lookup is of a tablet, the plan is available. if > > > not, it isn't. simple and effective. > > > > You describe the way *that* the plan is restricted to tablets, but don't > > give a good reason *why* the plan is restricted that way. > > i did give a good reason. more than one, in fact. It's a good reason in *your* *opinion*, nothing more, nothing less. > > You give a possible reason of stimulating customers to get higher > > plans on tablets. But why not stimulate getting higher plans on other > > type of devices (i.e. laptops, mobile Wi-Fi access points, etc)? > > it does that. In *your* *opnion*. > > I.e. it is the way it is, nothing more, nothing less. T-Mobile decided > > it this way. That may make sense to them, but doesn't neccessarily make > > sense to 'us'. > > it doesn't need to make sense to you personally. very little does, and > this is no exception. Exactly *which* part of "'us'" didn't you understand? > however, it makes a lot of sense to other people. Not to anyone in this group, it does. At least none have said so and some have said the opposite. So let's rephrase that: It makes sense to *you*, not neccessarily anybody else. Bottom line: Just another case of nospam's opinion presented as fact.