The cost for data does not dissipate, it is merely redistributed. Rather than giving your money to AT&T for your service, it will just be charged by data-heavy

The cost for data does not dissipate, it is merely redistributed. Rather than giving your money to AT&T for your service, it will just be charged by data-heavy services - particularly as this would increase their data costs. Furthermore, reliance upon such a system would likely give AT&T license to reduce data package size, thus harming the average smartphone user. Although AT&T might frame this as innovation, such maneuvering is transparently self-serving. Rather than having the customer blame them for high costs and decreasing data allowances, AT&T can place the blame elsewhere. Knowing AT&T as we do, the potential for good in this model is rather woefully undercut by its obvious potential for bad.