[gremy0]

Yeah 500 MB could be enough if technology regressed (which it isn't going to). You're going to need a bigger plan regardless as 500 MB is nothing and mobile internet features are become more rich and ubiquitous.

The growth of website size has been fairly steady, if anything the growth has flattened over the last year or so. It is up to the infrastructure to keep up with that.

In the last year or two we've had the introduction 4G with 2-4 times the speed of 3G and you expect to have the same usage allowance?

[anteht]

For people in the developed world with good technology infrastructure, yes. But it's also quite inconsiderate to tell people to upgrade their dataplan (which for some people might be a financial limit) instead of trying to think of better ways to reduce cruft and unnecessary data transfers.

[gremy0]

It's quiet inconsiderate to tell developers to optimize for outdated bandwidth caps (which for some may be extra time, cost etc that they don't have).

You should expect to have to increase you dataplan every few years (because technology) whether that cost is absorbed by you or your phone company is a conversation to have with them.

[CaptSpify]

The problem is that devs are putting more effort into making websites bloated. They'd have more time if they got rid of cruft

[mirimir]

But whatever, most of what 500MB isn't enough for is useless to users. So why should they pay more to get it?