This happened when the Cellular Phone became a Smartphone - and able to access the Internet. Suddenly, the little computer in your hand, could do everything your Laptop could, when it was connected to the Internet. Want to see naked dancing women on YouTube? No problem.
It could access the Internet two ways - your Phone provider could make this access available to its phones, and charge you for this service - calling it data (how it calculates these data charges, is not very clear).
Or, if your Phone has WiFi capability (and all of them do, now) it could use this - for free, or for very little.
I'm waiting to see what my charges will be, for my new Android, for this month (my first full month). Probably they will not amount to much - and my provider will quietly pocket the money.
This is Capitalism - spending money (and it costs a lot to set up a Cellular Network) - to make money, a few dollars at a time - contributed by thousands of users - forever.
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