[adventured]

If you look out to 2020, and assume 5G will be ready, what you'll get in production is nowhere near 1tbps. You might see 500mbps - 1gbps commonly deployed across the US and Europe during the 2020-2025 time frame. Deploying the initial infrastructure was very expensive, but now it's in place. That's part of the reason why the US was able to transition relatively quickly to 4G LTE, there was no need to build 200,000 towers again.

Data caps will rise substantially over the next five years. By 2020x, they'll be commonly at several hundred gigabytes at 5G speeds across the US and Europe, with unlimited data at lower speeds as a universal feature. No doubt numerous carriers will offer variations of unlimited data.

[FireBeyond]

You're entirely optimistic, I fear:

"One of the new AT&T plans will cost $25 per month and offer two gigabytes of data per month, which AT&T says will be enough for 98 percent of its smart phone customers. Additional gigabytes will cost $10 each."

This is in 2010.

Today that $25 will actually get you HALF the data it did in 2010, five years ago.

[irishcoffee]

This is why I buy phones outright to keep my unlimited data plan from verizon. I tether it for my home internet as well, usually use between 80-100gb/month.

I'm waiting for the day they just take it away.

[jen729w]

[Citation needed]