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You pay for peace of mind that little Johnny doesn't download some crazy amount by accident. Now you don't have to monitor family usage so that makes things easier as well.

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i had per gb pricing in new zealand. the key feature to address your issue was that i could set an upper limit, so, say start throttling the connection once i reach $50. that's the same that other ISPs would do anyways once i reached a certain amount of usage, but with this ISP i decided the limit and i could change it at any time.

the price was competitive too. other ISPs charged $70 per month, and had a limit of 50gb (that was 15 years ago) my ISP charged $20 as base fee and $1 per gb of usage. if i used less than 50gb, i saved money, if i used more then i could...

It's unfortunate that cellular providers don't offer this. I get around it by setting my data connection to prefer 3g. It helps with a 500mb limit (data is expensive on cheap plans), but it'd be nice to be able to throttle apps individually (no, I do not want video ads to be downloaded, but internet connectivity is required for the app to work online. A HN client with webview, for example)

years ago i came across per gb pricing but the cost was insane. it was essentially: prepay your usage or we charge you 10 times as much as the prepay would have cost you.

i mean i came across gb pricing for mobile

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