$10 per gigabyte is not "reasonable metered data prices" or "the true cost". In practice, the price per gigabyte of data delivered by any network operator in an

$10 per gigabyte is not "reasonable metered data prices" or "the true cost". In practice, the price per gigabyte of data delivered by any network operator in any given region past the first byte is magnitudes cheaper than the first byte, by the nature of coverage. Someone using, say, 100GB on any network operator is not using $1000 worth of electricity / tower uptime costs / etc. They might, in the most ludicrously expensive regulatory environments, be costing a hundredth that.