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On 21/03/18 15:27, mr meowski wrote:
Possibly because tourists can avoid using their own data allowance - and the accompanying stinging mobile bill. Renting a router means they pay the cost when on holiday and can forget about it when they get home.On 21/03/18 10:00, Simon Avery wrote:They had a very short lived niche. Then smart phones started including functionality to act as a portable hotspot which does everything these do and you're already carrying it. There may still be some very specific use cases where they are desirable without a smart phone attached, but for most folk, not so much. Certainly my phone works just fine to hotspot for my laptop when I'm away from home.Weirdly they're still really popular in Japan for some reason and tourists can rent them everywhere: https://www.japan-rail-pass.co.uk/services/pocket-wifi Like everyone else I just use my phone of course - has the added advantage of letting me run the adhoc hotspot network through a VPN as well. Cheers
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