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What service do you use [USA]
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A mvno is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, thus MVNO. They don't own the network, they lease it.
I use a private dns for privacy. I don't like my data and metrics being shared without my consent. It also blocks ads. Win win
edit: they had some sort of billing issue with me where my bill was consistently 40-50+ bucks over what it should be. So it would be correct one month then the next it would be like 200 bucks and back and forth. When I called, the garbage support had zero clue, and now that I have cancelled, they say they owe me 40 bucks. When I went to pay my bill, it was always 2 payments. Why? I called, again no clue. They did away with Google pass, well you want to know what they also did away with? The insurance on my phone and didn't tell me. So with i needed it, I was not insured. Cool. Hard pass for me.
Edit: here's an example of why a private dns is useful:
Good reason to leave any service provider. Fortunately, I haven't had any issues so far.
As for DNS, I do run pi-hole which has been great over the years at blocking a lot of the telemetry on my network. I would by no means consider my network "private" though.
Ooo a pihole! That's on the list.