>Except that I imagine these very low caps are long play to justify price increases when using 4 or 8 or 20+ GB per month on your phone becomes the norm, or 600

>Except that I imagine these very low caps are long play to justify price increases when using 4 or 8 or 20+ GB per month on your phone becomes the norm, or 600GB/month on your desktop becomes the norm. I work for a mobile phone provider in the US. I'm at the bottom of the totem pole, so I'm not really privy to what the people at the top are thinking (and don't think what I'm saying is in any way official), but I don't think this is true. We really do have bandwidth constraints, and it takes a small fortune plus a couple years to slog through the process of putting up a new cell site. The reality is if we don't have caps some percentage of our customers is going bittorrent twenty HD movies at the same time, completely swamping that leg of our network and causing everyone else's cat videos to start buffering. If we double our capacity they'll just double the number of movies they download at the same time. We can't win by adding capacity. The part that pisses me off about all this is everyone I know who compulsively downloads a bunch of movies hardly ever actually watches them. It's some kind of pack rat syndrome.