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> You can just get an unlimited tarif and be done with it.

Um, if you're in the U.S. probably not. Most have some kind of limits even on 'unlimited' such as your connection goes to ISDN speed.

Even my cable modem has a 350GB a month cap which I occasionally exceed.



> Um, if you're in the U.S. probably not. Most have some kind of limits even on 'unlimited' such as your connection goes to ISDN speed.

Yeah... but in Germany the biggest cap available is 10GB for 25€ (http://www.billiger-telefonieren.de/mobiles-internet-verglei...) and these are data-only SIMs, truly unlimited does not exist for us.

On the other hand, while shockingly low caps are generally accepted on mobile, people do protest whenever a provider tries to place caps on landline (VDSL, DOCSIS) contracts.


Germany is literally the exception. Even in the US you can get high data caps on mobile. Also some of that data will go via wifi.


I'm in the UK, and pay £33/m ($50) for unlimited 4G data, calls and texts, of which 12GB can be used for tethering. It includes roaming to 14 other countries at no extra cost. This is on a 1 month, SIM-only contract on Three. I think this is good value.


In the US it's not an issue to have 60GB per month. Neither on mobile nor on cable.


Well, no, it's not an "issue"... if you're willing to pay $375-475/month for a 60GB mobile data plan.


> Well, no, it's not an "issue"... if you're willing to pay $375-475/month for a 60GB mobile data plan.

What plans are you looking at? For a family of 4, unlimited data on T-mobile for instance costs 150 USD for the entire family or 37.5 USD per phone.


T-mobile, to be sure, I didn't look at. But with that plan, "if you are in the top 3% of users" (which 60GB/month is likely to be, especially as that's just one of those four users), your data use will be slowed to 2G speeds.

"typical download speeds of 40Kbps-200Kbps and upload speeds of 20-80 Kbps"

Snapchat is going to get pretty painful pretty quickly.


But nobody uses 60GB of data on data only. When you're at home you're typically connected to Wifi. Also in many ways that's besides the point. Usage on mobile devices is skyrocketing and in particular young users are the reason for it. At this point high data usage per month is not exactly an exception but the norm.


Maybe I should have read more closely, my assumption was that that referred to cellular data.

But in principle, I absolutely agree with you. Caps, etc? Should go away, yesterday.


I have an associate who travels and eschews wifi. He used like 75GB/month.




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