When Singapore received LTE, all three operators--SingTel, StarHub and M1--slashed data caps in unison from 12GB to 2-4GB, depending on the plan. If this was not a concerted effort, and the requisite decisions made weren't to compete but to milk the public together, then I don't know what it is. Prices didn't fall, just data allowances. We now get LESS than before.
Why did the data caps get introduced? This is what SingTel said: "The move is to eliminate data-hogs who log on to the network for a long time and take up bandwidth simply because they know they have a high cap."
And being the morons that some people are, he even got some cheers for this.
But the fact is, LTE/4G is not just FASTER, it's also much CHEAPER and MORE EFFICIENT than 3G. That means the cost-per-gigabyte supplied by the operators is going to be lower and lower, and it's speculated by experts that in 10 years, the cost of data for the operators will be 10 times lower for the operator. Full story
