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no_carrier on July 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How can phone companies detect tethering?

Does 4G even use the concept of a MAC address? I'm not familiar enough with the protocol to comment, but MAC addresses are usually an Ethernet conecpt.

kiallmacinnes on July 18, 2019 [–]

I believe it does use MAC addresses, just obviously the link layer is different. I'm not 100% certain though as I haven't gone deep into 4G!

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