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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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