>>>>Bad enough all the USA carriers seem to want to cap out your allowed data to 5gb a month - now ATT is cutting it to 2gb a month!
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>>>>What a bunch of creeps - speed up the network & then don't let anyone use it.
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>>>...a plan to dye one's whiskers green
>>>and always use so large a fan
>>>that it could not be seen
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>>>Looks a little counterproductive to me, in the sense that it may easily drive clients away.
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>>Yeah but the problem is that all the other carriers will do the same thing....this is how the 10gb limit got started...then it was 5gb... now one of them switches to 2gb and all the other's will follow.
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>It does look strange that the generally available bandwidth should go down, when the tendency has been for it to go up all the time.

Yep - but they sell so many phones that the network can't keep up. Big difference if 3 people are connected to a tower surfing the web than say 30 people.

>How does this cap work in practice, anyway? Once you reach your limit (a) you have to pay extra, (b) you can't connect at all, (c) you connect only at a slow speed, (d) some other method?

Depends upon the carrier - but all of the above are true & in some cases they terminate your contract and blacklist you from ever getting another account.