What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

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      8 months ago

      From what I heard is that a phone used as USB tether identifies as a modem on the computer, and then the traffic is somehow detected differently. I haven’t tested this personally though since my ISP doesn’t cap or throttle me when using hotpsots.