Unlimited data plans used to be the norm among British carriers, but now that all five are offering the iPhone 4, the networks have moved swiftly to introduce data caps. No doubt, the networks are eager to avoid the network overload problems that both AT&T (NYSE: T) and O2 have blamed primarily on their data-chomping iPhone customers.
Just yesterday, a ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) report revealed that across Europe, iPhone users were the highest consumers of mobile content, with 94 percent using mobile media; 87 percent using applications, and 85 percent browsing the mobile internet. O2, which has apologized publicly about its network quality, has said that 3 percent of its smartphone tariffs were generating 36 percent of its data traffic.
It

{"source":"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/06\/24\/419-uk-carriers-ditch-unlimited-data-as-iphone-4-launches\/wijax\/49e8740702c6da9341d50357217fb629","varname":"wijax_9f0f26beac275600aa2ae487989830c4","title_element":"header","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Cheader%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fheader%3E"}