Sorry, guys, but there really ain't no such thing as a free lunch.<p>Eventually we'll all be paying metered fees, broadband or wireless. It's really the only fair way, the same as we pay for water or electricity. Data is just another pipe/wire.
I'm thinking of sticking around on AT&T long enough with my iPhone for a little while. Who knows, the mass iPhone user migration to Verizon might make AT&T's service halfway decent!
There are so many articles like this that miss the root cause: a lack of competition. Why is there a lack of competition? Government granted monopolies and regulation.<p>We shouldn't have to trust companies to do what's in the best interest customers. We should be able to trust the market to bankrupt these companies.
This article seems overly biased.<p>> But above all, Verizon’s data throttling is shady in areas where even AT&T can’t compete. Even when AT&T had unlimited data, the company did not practice throttling, and an independent test showed its unlimited data was truly unlimited.<p>So AT&T couldn't keep offering unlimited data and went to a 2GB/mo plan. Is the author really faulting Verizon for not keeping up with a plan that AT&T doesn't offer anymore?