#Data Caps

Smart is rolling out their LTE Advanced network already in the Philippines to deliver faster mobilke data to its users. Faster data speeds. The bad news? Well... We have only hundreds of MB of data for use in promos, and "unlimited" surfing caps us for as low as 1GB in some cases. Faster speeds at this point is not really needed, and in my opinion, the funding of expanding into LTE-A should have just been allocated into better networks that won't congest - if this is truly the purpose of data capping. It might be a different case here in the Philippines, but an analysis done by Arstechnica in 2014 tells us that data capping is more about profits than it is about network congestion. They're not the only source who tell us this, but giving our carriers the benefit of the doubt, it still tells us that to some extent, the data capping in the country could be improved - and yet, here we are advancing technologies that aren't as needed yet without solving the existing problems that we face today. I've been saying it since 2013,  and we've even followed up on more ideas in 2014 --- there just isn't enough pressure on the telcos to give us more of what we need - because really, we just need decent to good connections, more than sufficient data to use, and lower prices. Read more in our articles including "The Irony of LTE Advanced" and "Infinix HOT 70 now available with Dynamic Shine design".