Editorial: How to stop the choking of mobile phone contracts

So we've all probably notice all the major phone carriers recede from unlimited data plans, opting instead to tell consumers to resort to their home wi-fi networks and use the 250mb (on average) of data they receive on their contract 'as a back-up.'

There is, however, an option to this: we take it all back to how contracts were.

Pay for what you use.  Charge by the minute, by the text, by the megabyte.  Sounds scary doesn't it.