Why Unlimited Data Is Impossible To Maintain

Phone carriers make us pay to use more data, but how much does data actually cost them? Is data actually that expensive?


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"In a story almost as old as unlimited mobile data plans, there has been a fight over those who provide the plans and those who actually test the boundaries on what unlimited use actually means. This week AT&T said it would only start throttling users on its unlimited plans when they reached about 22 GB per month, as opposed to 5 GB per month, in response to a Federal Communication Commission fine."

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Written by: Jules Suzdaltsev

[doa_form]

Impossible to maintain? No, they just want more profit

[abdullahalzayadi]

I'm an IT professional and worked with wireless companies before.
You said Netflix is a well "established" company and they say it 1 cent per Gigabyte... well poor AT&T, Verizon, sprint, and T-mobile they are very small compared to Netflix... smh
after initial infrastructure investment the cost of data is very very low, and in the US after Telecommunications Act of 1996 those companies have so many Tax breaks and benefits that the infrastructure should be laid in fiber optic everyone by now.
and if you have fiber in the ground you can increase number of towers, and increase the main fiber line speed by very small upgrades.
Honestly man you didn't do your homework on this one and you look bad.
Unlimited data is very achievable its just not as profitable as the situation now. greed is the main point not science.

[wrathisme]

*TITLE CORRECTION:* Cellular corporations want to squeeze every dry cent out of you and would rather you foot the bill for their infrastructure than they want to spend a dime helping consumers.

[OscarHernandez-wflf]

Sounds like he is being paid by big companies to get us to think its okay to give up those unlimited plans

[DogsRNice]

This video is propaganda for the cellular providers

[NevxHyper]

Who else is using unlimited data to watch this?

[Master_Therion]

Unlimited Data would be impossible to maintain. That's why in Star Trek there is only one Data.

[orbenlovesdrawing]

Data is so expensive in South Africa, its cheaper to take a taxi to your your friend. & show him the video then to sent it over social media

[esra_erimez]

Trace, When did you become a corporate shill?

[mfUnknown]

Bandwidth has nothing to do with how much data is used in a month, its about how much data you can use at once, it's not like what you suggest where previous data "clogs" the pipeline

[MindofMichaelMyers]

Goodbye credibility. This is bullshit. They can charge overages with no limit! There for it is about money!

Unsubscribed.

[robithevampire]

0:32 lol like how can you abuse unlimited data? It's unlimited like I can use how much data I want. How can you abuse that? They advertised it as unlimited

[ian]

"laughs in European" we don't have 4g everywhere but unlimited data is very cheap

[blkspade]

First and foremost, don't uses the term "abuse" when talking about people using what's sold to them as an infinite resource. Do you abuse the sun standing outside all day? I'm pretty sure you're far less to it, than what its doing to you. Its a misdirection, when its the company at fault for over-selling their capacity. The only reason to charge per/GB is as a disincentive to use, because can't they actually handle all the people they're selling to, and they'd rather line pockets than expand infrastructure. Its like charging the people that got on the bus first more for the privilege of keeping their seat, instead off being forced to stand, and as opposed to the company expanding their fleet. Now there is some leeway for mobile, but it makes far less sense (but more cents) for wired providers.

[noahcisneros]

This video brought to you by AT&T.

[sjdodge]

You said the solution in the video. cellular companies just need to build more infrastructure to compensate for data traffic. You know, the thing we PAY them for..

this video is horrible and does not address the point at all.

[BADISkettu]

Here in Finland you can get unlimited 4G 100Mbps speed for 20€/month. And it's the standard here... Wherever you go, even if you are at the mountains hiking, you still get at least 2Mbps 3G connection.

[rickjames]

This video was cleary sponsored by the phone companies.

[themaximus]

I mean, cummon man. I'm sure not having unlimited plans will free up more speed for everyone sure, but that's not why these companies are doing it. They are businesses. They do, what makes them money. Which means the reason they want to eliminate unlimited is to make money off the customers who will no longer have it rather than to help out the rest of their consumer base. Freeing up speed is just a helpful side effect. This can be proven by the fact that there are other ways to free up speed than simply eliminating unlimited plans. You could for example let them keep an unlimited plan, but then throttle their download speeds after they use x amount of data. right? This would have the same effect as removing the unlimited plan, would be less egregious as removing the plan entirely, but would make them no money, so they don't do it. Granted it would still suck, but it would be better than not having unlimited at all. There's probably other ways too.

[JeekayTenn]

My friend got banned from Unlimited Data by using 100GB in a few days