If by pay on what you use you mean our wireless carriers charging for overages by the megabyte then forget it. Those greedy mofos in the boardroom wearing $1000 suits already do that. 

I’d rather have unlimited data in the sense that 30GB will be high speed and it will be throttled to 3G speeds (512 kbps) afterwards and not worry of paying more. 

I'm thinking normally, a plan has unlimited data (or enough it doesn't matter, like 1 TB), but a capped speed, and I was thinking compared to other services like internet access, that seems kind of backwards.  The quality of service should be constant, and you pay based on how much you use, rather than having (virtually) unlimited supply, but then pay for the quality.

But I guess phone data plans are sort of like this and that is a horrendous situation so maybe this is bad

Verizon charged by the gigabyte but each GB over your data cap was $15.

Personally, I like what Verizon calls "unlimited" you have basically normal speeds up to around 20GB or so of usage once you go past that depending on the congestion in your area your traffic will get lower priority. If you're in a less congested area, your speeds stay more or less the same. I presume the tiers of unlimited determine where your priority in the slow downs are. The only thing Im not a fan of is the tiers and the hotspot restrictions. Truthfully I wished the entry level unlimited plan offered full LTE speed hotspot for upto around 10gb of data usage then the next two tiers double or so that number
so the next one would be 20GB or so and the most expensive tier of unlimited would be like 30GB or so.

Ehh, I'm on an old Sprint Unlimited plan that's been grandfathered in. I'll take the unlimited thank you very much. 

This is interesting, everyone assumed I was talking about cellphone data plans when that actually hadn't even crossed my mind until the first comment brought it up.  I was thinking home internet I think this says something about what devices people are using, and especially with this coming from a tech-enthusiast audience I'm not sure I like what I see

Spectrum gives us unlimited 100mbps down for $40/m and with not too crazy throttling. We often get well above the 100 down mark that we pay for. 

All the throttling that I thought was happened was just my router being shit at determining which band my devices should be on. My PC really likes 2.4GHz but my router constantly put it on the 5GHz band and everything else likes 5GHz. 

@ryan_vickers (too lazy to wait for the tag to properly load lol)

Well home internet, I dunno Centurylink I've heard had a 150GB cap but I think it was unlimited. The speeds sucked.

Comcast I hear is 1TB and for most people that's fine.

@Ryan_Vickers My new ISP gives me 25 down/25 up fiber internet for just $30 and it’s finally an ISP that doesn’t bundle landline. Maybe once I finished med school I can afford $70 for 100 down/100 up but right now 25/25 suits my needs. 

@DrMacintosh dude same

im in love with the no data caps, but my family almost never gets to the xfinity cap, so we might switch for both internet and phone, so then we have better coverage and more access to hotspots.