• jonne@infosec.pub
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    11 months ago

    They’re making the data faster, but most plans are still limited to something ridiculous like 20G/month. What’s the point of being able to stream 4K video or whatever if that’s going to burn through your data allowance in seconds?

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      A huge part of newer mobile network generations is the increased capacity. Faster speeds is effectively the same as more capacity in the towers.

      This means that companies could actually afford to start offering unlimited data caps, there just has to be the push to do so. But I do genuinely believe that within a decade there will be no more datacaps for mobile data in cities, at least (or at least plenty of plans with unlimited and no throttling). Well, idk about the US considering you got data caps on broadband, but, I’m sure Europe will get it.

      • stolid_agnostic
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        11 months ago

        They can already offer unlimited data at no cost to themselves. They choose not to because what are you going to do about it?