Why is Wi-Fi a lot cheaper per usage than mobile data charges?

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As the title says, WiFi could be 50$ per month even though it’s like 100GB whilst a mobile data charge of that cost would get like 5GB of internet?

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Because they can. You can only send so much data per cell tower. They more people per tower, the less data each person gets as their “slice”. They try and add data caps and limit the overall data used so when people do try and use it, they get an overall larger slice.

On “WiFi” and home internet, each house gets its own dedicated link like the cell tower has but there are far fewer people to split the data with

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