I really think it is because mobile networks are not able yet to handel people putting unlimited demands for data access on them. Any network has its upper limits and mobile networks are still less able to handel demand than land line networks. If they put limits that serve a purpose, but are not over limiting, that keeps people from constantly doing things like streaming the most data intensive video stuff and whatever else they can fid with no concern of any consequences to themselves, bringing down the entire network so nobody can do anything and then everybody is left unhappy. People will be a little more reasonable with what they do if there is a cost to them. Having said that, AT&T's netwrk can not even handel the limited use in some areas including the city where I live. During the day I can not even pull up a small web page on AT&T's 3g network. It simply times out. I can not stream pandora, I can barely use the weather app to pull its small amount of data. Since my contract is almost up, I have signed on with Verizon and I can tell you that right now their network actually works in my area. My understanding is that this exact situation is not uncommon at all. Maybe Verizon will manage their resources and growth in a way that does not create another AT&T.
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