Data over cell phone connections has physical limits. If someone expects a system originally designed to transmit voice is going to seamlessly feed high-definition movies to anyone with a phone they're going to be disappointed.

Frankly, I'm hugely impressed that the cell companies have kept up as well as they have with what must have been orders of magnitude increases in data flow through the cell phone system. At some point, maybe a new model will be needed.

My van has a little box in it that gives me internet on the road. It costs about 30 bucks a month with a 1 GB limit. I have no idea how it works. It's some kind of 3G cell phone connection, but I've had good connections in the middle of nowhere where we can't even raise a regular cell connection, and blackouts in the middle of cities.