Comment The problem is technological, not Verizon (Score 1) 273
We don't have the infrastructure to support unlimited mobile data plans on a large scale yet. It makes perfect sense carriers would role out larger networks and cap data usage of mobile customers, because a handful of people would use a large portion of the data, and disrupt the reliability of the network for the rest of us. This is a neat advance, and hopefully sooner rather than later the cellular network will be able to carry the volume of data current stationary ISPs can, but we aren't there yet, and those upgrades will be expansive. The fact is that mobile data is expensive, it's expensive for Verizon to carry that data over their mobile network (and upgrade their network to accommodate it), and they're passing that cost on to their customers.