Inexpensive unlimited data is getting scarce, but I think that's reasonable. LTE capacity is by nature more limited & expensive than wired capacity. For many a

Inexpensive unlimited data is getting scarce, but I think that's reasonable. LTE capacity is by nature more limited & expensive than wired capacity. For many activity categories- email, light browsing, etc- a few GB per month is more than sufficient. If you want to torrent terabytes per month or run multiple Netflix streams all day long, you are a three or even six sigma user, and carriers realize that subsidizing your unusual usage with other subscriber's fees increases costs for the average user, making the carrier less cost-competitive. So you are either going to get pushed to hard lines, or you are going to have to pay for those terabytes of data. My phone (Verizon prepaid) freely allows me to tether, although this relaxation is a recent development so there are probably many older phones that simply have not been updated to allow tethering. My 1GB is definitely a snug limit but not unworkable.