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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
Isn't that the same justification that companies like Verizon have used when doing away with their unlimited plans? "Only 2% of data users go over X-amount of GBs a month, so most everyone will be ok with these tiers!"
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The true cost of the bandwidth is all about paying middle men, Amazon might get good rates, but they'll never be that good. When you consider how much mobile data costs in the 3rd world, and you understand that people use tethering to download hundreds of gb per month (I've heard people say BB users could manage 1.2tb), things start to get real expensive.
The reason for capping becoming far more common in the US/Canada is that telecos didn't invest in infrastructure for a long time, so they need to work out ways to justify the caps, however it's based on capacity rather than cost. Elsewhere in the world caps are being removed.