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Now that we have super fast mobile internet, can we please stop charging absurd data costs? I have Google Fi, and they still charge $10/GB. I could consume that much data within a couple minutes on a cellular network. Sometimes I worry about accidentally using up all my bandwidth when I press the wrong button on an app.

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> I have Google Fi, and they still charge $10/GB. I could consume that much data within a couple minutes on a cellular network

Project Fi caps data bills at $60/month: https://fi.google.com/about/plan/

My only gripe with Fi is that if you use Google Voice you end up having to give up your extra number. (I love having more than one phone number.)

I got around that by just making another google account specifically for my old cell number turned voice number. I really wanted a 505 area code but knew I'd inevitably miss a site for which I'd need to update the 2FA number, so I just grabbed <my phone number>@gmail.com and ported the number.

It's also been helpful given how many people absolutely refuse to stop calling my old number despite explicitly telling the resistant ones "I have a new number, I _will_ stop checking the old one, and I can't answer calls to it anyway".

Ah I was thinking that they would throttle you to ridiculously slow speeds if you went over the limit. It looks like the throttling doesn't kick in until 15 GB, which is pretty good.

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