There should not have been a cap anyway on EVDO - the ratio of "average consumers" who do not use their phones for internet and those who do is so great, that those who do will see almost no slow down. I think the cap should have only been on data cards and it should have been 10GB.
The data cap is only on data cards and on tethering to a computer. There is no data cap for data usage directly on your phone. It has always been this way. We still should expect to see a bandwidth cap increase with LTE as the 3G network will still hold the vast majority of traffic for a number of years to come and LTE should be able to provide more overall bandwidth anyways.
They don't calculate data properly anyway. I've been tethered for like, 3-4 hours and probably used 150-200mb during that time, checked the website a few days later and it said I used about 13mb. I downloaded a single file that was 48mb, so I know I used more than 13mb.
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There should not have been a cap anyway on EVDO - the ratio of "average consumers" who do not use their phones for internet and those who do is so great, that those who do will see almost no slow down. I think the cap should have only been on data cards and it should have been 10GB.
The data cap is only on data cards and on tethering to a computer. There is no data cap for data usage directly on your phone. It has always been this way. We still should expect to see a bandwidth cap increase with LTE as the 3G network will still hold the vast majority of traffic for a number of years to come and LTE should be able to provide more overall bandwidth anyways.
They don't calculate data properly anyway. I've been tethered for like, 3-4 hours and probably used 150-200mb during that time, checked the website a few days later and it said I used about 13mb. I downloaded a single file that was 48mb, so I know I used more than 13mb.