I suspect data carriers would prefer you spend your dollars streaming rather than consuming stored media on the handset.
Hehe, that might well be but I wonder. At least in France I suspect that carriers would rather people did not use all of their allocated BW (you can get 50GB on LTE for 20 Euros per month).
In rural US I pay 45 Euros for 30GB/month. In the city I get about 1mb/s, but in the countryside I can get 40mb/s.
Do you mean $45 or ~$50 (45 euros)?
Also, which cellular provider here in the states is offering 30 GB / month at that low of a price (do they have special rural pricing or something)?
I'm crying, I pay the same of 1/100th the data in Canada
I pay the same for 1% of the capacity.
I doubt that. Less streaming per customer means they can support more customers with a given amount of infrastructure (I'm thinking about towers and spectrum in particular), so their infrastructure costs effectively go down on a per-customer basis.
I'd guess the power use is on the high side for a phone.