Wireless Carriers Make $16.7 Billion a Year on Your Capped Data

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Nov 1 · 2 min read

You might think capping your data plan would save you money. But if you don’t meet the cap, you’re wasting data — and that’s money in the carrier coffers.

By Eric Griffith

Would you be better off blowing past your wireless carrier’s data cap every month? New research is showing that might be the case-at least then you’d be getting…

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