ELI5- what do cell phone companies actually do?

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I’m wondering what service are we actually paying for every month. What does it actually cost to provide data and how do they turn your services off if you don’t pay. Even before the internet was on phones, what did it cost them to provide us with minutes? I understand the phone companies provide the phones, tablets, etc but aside from that I don’t really get what they do that costs so much.

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The important part are the cell phone towers that the cell phones connect to.

Cell phone companies need to build and maintain them or pay someone to do it for them.

These towers receive the signal from your phone and pass it via a cable or some other means to then be connected to the internet and phone network.

These things are expensive.

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