[decimon]

"...4.56 million terabytes..."

What we have here is a failure to cease communicating.

[Deaf Smith]

Solution: Shorten battery life and lengthen recharge time.

[unixfox]

They started it.

[Inyo-Mono]

Hope this doesn’t ruin it for those of us that just want to make a phone call on our phones.

[Dan Nunn]

It's down to networks designed for low-bandwidth voice calls. Some data provision was allowed in the original plans but the recent explosion in consumer smartphones was a bolt from the blue. Whereas mobile users were once happy to visit low-bandwidth mobile versions of sites (anybody remember WAP?), nowadays we expect the full high-bandwidth experience we have at home. Why should YouTube be off-limits just because we're at the coffee shop, especially bearing in mind our mobile devices have no problem playing video?

Huh? What an ignorant article. Those networks "designed for low-bandwidth voice calls?" First of all, voice is NOT bandwidth, and won't be for a while, as Verizon tested their first Voice over LTE call (VoLTE) just last month! Second of all, these networks have been continuously upgraded and deprecated over the last decade! Let's go over just Verizon's network progression since their inception a decade ago (and before that):

• Analog Cellular (totally discontinued)
• 1xRTT (the old, 2G network)
• EVDO (3G, currently deployed to 100% of VZW's native coverage map)
• EVDO Rev A (Verizon rolled this out a little later)
• LTE (Launched Dec of last year, will be in 149 cities by the end of this year)

And this article says that the cell companies' networks weren't designed for today's technology? Today's technology is what is powering today's network. Totally ignorant, worthless article.

[Waryone]

One possible fix. “The tiny cube that could cut your cell phone bill”

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/21/technology/light_radio/index.htm

[the invisib1e hand]

Yeah. But they keep selling they same fixed over and over. Which is why I can hardly make a call or upload a post here without pullIng my hair out. Takes over ten minutes sometimes. The further we move ahead, the less progress we make.

Money-for-nothing alert.

[EDINVA]

what we also have is a generation of teens and young adults who communicate almost exclusively thru their smart phones using ‘social media.’ Much of it is just a huge waste of bandwidth.