[parkjam]

I understand completely where you are coming from and what you are saying. I agree that it is not impossible to exceed 5gb a month from the mobile, but I would not say that is something that is easy to do. I browse and stream alot from my phone, and have never exceeded 4gb. I don't have a problem with people doing that. My problem is with people who cancel the cable service and replace their home internet with tethered service from the mogul, especially when they are not even paying for tethering. It is practices like these that force carriers to re-evaluate their "unlimited" data policies and change them to 5gb caps.

If I remember correctly, Verizon was the first to put a cap on unlimited data service, and I sincerely doubt that they just decided, "Why don't we make our unlimited service, limited to 5gb, just for grins!" It was most likely becoming more and more of an issue of just a few users racking up huge data transfer amounts, and killing the bandwidth for everyone else....