Unchecked corporate greed.
That is a fucking great question coming from the people who are literally in charge of regulating these sorts of things.
Because you corrupt morons (really, your predecessors) allowed it to be. I’m old enough to remember losing that fight.
having flashbacks to a time telcoms charged $$ per text. what a desperate move to extract every bit of $$ from the literal sharing of information
Charging for both a connection speed and a limit is ridiculous. The latter is obviously a cash grab, but paired with different tiers of speed just screams “regulate me”