The alternative is what we will get next, which is that everyone gets a rate hike AND these draconian overage charges go up and increase in number and complexity. If you think that this single cap will magically keep your rate down, whilst penalizing only those big bad pirates, you're dreaming. This is the same company that has a 200MB monthly cap on cell data, because its internal data says that lots of customers tend to just barely go over 200MB, thus forcing them into the 2GB tier.