I still think about throughput and bandwidth from time to time. In my case, I am mobile enough to encounter the fast but high latency case and fast, but only i

I still think about throughput and bandwidth from time to time. In my case, I am mobile enough to encounter the fast but high latency case and fast, but only in little bursts, too few to gloss over, cases. There is room for more here, and it might lead to something new, that scales. That said, I do agree with you. In my view, what the carriers do matters more. They are still wanting to gatekeep to a much higher degree than they currently are. Nothing pays like creating problems and then selling solutions does. Massive consolidation opens the door for the threat of artificial value to walk right through and into our wallets. Take the truisms in my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30822400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30822400 That quality vs choice problem can be made to go away for what could be called a nominal charge each month. Think all the ugly FastPass was for Disney, applied to our mobile experiences. It's very ripe fruit, sadly.