I know enough to conclude that it hasn't gotten more expensive to ship bits in the past ten years. Yet, here we are in the US, shifting from unlimited data plans to rate-limited, capped plans, and no one seems to have come up with a convincing explanation as to why that's occurring.
Of course it has become more expensive to ship bits. More people are finding more uses. Are you deluded or what? How disconnected from reality and how entitled can one be?
Really? Entitlement? The rest of the developed world has faster, cheaper, and in many cases unlimited data, and you're calling me "entitled" for being incredulous about claims of the "ever-increasing cost of data transfer".
But, thanks for the insults. This place is really friendly!
I know enough to conclude that it hasn't gotten more expensive to ship bits in the past ten years.
Are you kidding me?
We went from simple networks to 3G to 4G --which requires new infrastructure deployments every few years.
We went from the mobile web being almost nothing to hundreds of millions of very capable mobile web devices in the past ten years (iPhone/iPad/Android...).
Network usage increased exponentially with the newer, more useful devices. People were buying "unlimited" plans and used 100-300MB per month, not they can easily go to over several GBs.
It's like you have a "unlimited free refills" soda fountain. When everyone has 2-3 drinks it's ok. When everyone starts having 10-20 sodas, well, you start putting some limit to those "unlimited refills".
That is a load of horseshit.