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VAMatt on 18 January 2020
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konnichiwa said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

At a price! If you're willing to pay ~50€ a month just to be able to stream games on top of what the games cost - and you still end up with a worse experience, just look at Stadia and how that went down.

Also, unlimited data doesn't mean unlimited bandwidth. For a 1080p like experience, you should already have something like 10Mbit/s, for 4k, 50Mbit/s. Most antennas would be overwhelmed if there's more than a couple users who game like that (just measure your internet speed in Metro Manila for instance, you'd be happy if you reach double digits on LTE - and they only play LoL and the like).

True they use the term more broad unlimited = More than a 1 Terabyte atleast but I am way to lazy to check which countries only have a Terabyte.  Ten years ago we saw the same complaints about streaming services like netflix.  Well we will see in the end.

Just a decade ago, we had caps on talk time and text messages too.  My dad racked up cell phone bills of several hundred dollars per month sometimes, because he wouldn't STFU.  I had huge bills from texting my girlfriend as late as 2009.  

Back then, that was an important part of the mobile phone carriers' revenue streams.  But, what happened?  Things changed.  They dragged their feet for a little while.  But, the idea that one would have a limit on talk time is now laughable in all but the most.extreme cases (like the $15 per month grandma plans that still exist).  The same will happen with data.  I don't know when it will come, but it will.  Or, we'll get close enough that it doesn't matter.  

If the market demands truly unlimited data, it will come.  And, it appears that demand is building.