The Atalanta Principle

Instead of embracing the awesome fact that iPhone users are huge mobile data consumers the big old Bell is trying to find ways to disincentivise their customers from surfing the web on their iPhones. (And this is a problem because there is nowhere else for them to go at the moment as the iPhone is still exclusively locked to AT&T in the States.) 

It has been reported that 3% of AT&T's customers use 40% of the network bandwidth - but isn't this the opportunity, the glimpse of the future where mobile connectivity is the norm and is used as such? At this stage surely the correct move is to build a better, faster network to keep these customers once the iPhone goes multi-carrier and therefore to ensure a long, profitable and dominant future for AT&T who got this artificial peep down the rabbit-hole of the telco situation of 2019.

But, I can't put it better than Dan Lyons, the writer of the brilliant Fake Steve blog (which purports to be Steve Jobs' personal take on things but which is actually tech industry commentary with excellent satire):

Check out the rant here. Beautifully done.