A fairly typical commercial practice in today's world is the implementation and enforcement of Data Caps. Data Caps exist on both residential internet services through dial up, DSL, cable or satellite and on mobile cellular services.
The internet today has become unlike anything anyone ever expected it to be. It is important both in our entertainment purposes as well as informational and business purposes. Today, information is increasingly spread through the internet and other mediums that rely on a connection to the connected world.Banking, Health Information, Maps and even the ability to contact emergency services.
In a world such as ours, these Data Caps are less about mitigation and more about creating a detrimental ecosystem around the usage and advancement of the connected world.