Cell Coverage
Cell Coverage
Cell Coverage

You’ll be forgiven for not paying too much attention to IFA, a giant tech conference taking place this week in Berlin. There have been some fine spectacles so far—84-inch, 4k TV anyone?—but for the most part, you’re not missing much. Except, maybe, for the exact moment that data plans started down an irreversible path towards the crippling, no-good, greed-driven shared data plans you’ve tried so hard to avoid. It’s easy to forget that we’re still in the very early stages of data plans even being a thing, because mobile data’s only something we’ve been mass-consuming for the last five or six years. Read the full story at Gizmodo.

About Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with technology, media and marketing. Named LinkedIn’s “Top Voice in Technology,” he covers tech and business for Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN and writes a popular daily business blog. He's a bestselling author, and the creator of the popular, free online course, Generative AI for Execs. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.

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