"Although many carriers tout the ability to stream video and interact with the cloud on their networks, strict data caps make actually doing those things expensive or impossible," laments consumer group Public Knowledge. In conjunction the Mozilla Foundation and the Open Source Democracy Foundation, Public Knowledge this week launched a new website called WhatIsMyCap.org aimed at simplifying wireless usage caps and overages. With SMS and voice revenues expected to decline, AT&T and Verizon are now imposing low caps and overages as high as $10 per gigabyte (and Sprint probably not far behind). With one survey suggesting that 86% of Americans don't even know what a gigabyte is, it's not hard to imagine that as HD video over wireless accelerates you're going to see a lot of people crying over their wireless bills.
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Mozilla, Others Launch WhatIsMyCap.org - Site Urges FCC to Investigate Usage Caps
Posted: January 9th, 2012, 2:51pm MST