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Originally Posted by NemesisEnforcer
4G is for more than your smartphone. When you tether or use the mobile hotspot for your computer you do see a difference.
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True, but they are trying to let you know they are not going to allow you the same BW over your phone as they do on a link like DSL, FIOS, Cable, etc... So the point is actually moot. They only want you using the BW for the phone and will price it accordingly.
As for somebody's comment on $10 per 1 gig is anal rape...
You are thinking about dedicated lines into a backbone of the Internet at those rates. You are thinking switches, routers and a cluster of servers in the thousands of machines. You are thinking about economies of scale.
Right now AT&T let you know that the airwaves don't have the same BW capacity that your 100 mbit line does on your server. They couldn't even handle 3G iPhones all accessing video like NFL games at the same time. Which is why Jobs tried to kill the iPhone's ability to tether at all costs. If everyone downloaded torrents through their phones the networks would all be maxed out and nobody would get shit.