There is, unsurprisingly, a Black Mirror episode about this.

“★★☆☆☆ Not a meaningful encounter”

Damn, what provider? Im paying 3000yen for 4gb with no calls included.

Its a good way to combat scalpers and gives ordinary people at least a chance to buy it without spam refreshing a website only for bots to grab everything anyway.

I swear this was the plot of a Dan Brown novel.