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“Just because it was allowed doesn't mean it wasn't possible to abuse it.”
Then they should have put an upper limit on it. They lost no time putting a limit of 4GB on it now, so they clearly have the technology to do it. They could have easily limited tethering use to 100gb / 50gb / 20gb / 10gb per account at any point where it was discovered to be becoming an issue. You have to perhaps wonder why they didn't do that relatively small thing.
If they (3) allowed it to escalate to the point where it did, then they are just as much to blame as those on various forums who, over the years, held some kind of pissing contest to see how much Data they could use or a mythical person offering 5 users free wifi.
I've mentioned several times before, that when BT washed their hands of ever bringing more than 400 - 500k ADSL speeds at the end of our 10km rural line length, that basically the entire area researched their options and eventually moved to some kind of Mobile Broadband device in order to enjoy a 2015 internet experience, currently the only networks to bring 3G to the area were '3' and 'EE' so basically you had an entire community of about 10 miles filled with farms, businesses and houses largely using 3G from either of these two networks as a sole household connection to the outside world. If that doesn't sit well with some people, then so beit because it doesn't sit well with us that we are expected to pay exactly the same ever increasing phone line rental as somebody getting 80 mbps fibre speeds!.
Despite this, and a crowded caravan park during the summer months, how did I manage to get 10mbps routinely from 3G, if tethering was so detrimental? that doesn't add up because locally we probably had more concentrated tethering and MBB use than most other areas with Fibre and usable ADSL connections. At this time of year there are 100's of city dwellers packed onto the local caravan park for their holidays, no doubt they have brought their expensive phones and electronic child entertainment with them, yet I can still get a healthy 12mbps from 3G and 30mbps from a weak distant 4G signal via EE, even at weekends and peak times.
Its also a myth that ADSL substitute users are all using 100GB +, I used around 10GB a month, probably less data than those who sit on trains, in pubs, at music events or even on a caravan holiday squinting at their handsets for hours on end would use. EE were supposedly rolling out a home 4GEE tariff for this exact purpose, and in essence I can't see any difference to using 25GB via this means, or from a MBB sim or even tethered - it all comes from the same mast.