With just half an hour of mobile video eating up 5.25GB, the data demands of streaming music, movies and TV shows on-the-go can quickly add up. Three’s Go Binge plan gives customers unlimited streaming of content on Netflix and Deezer, without the worry of extra charges.

"Over the last year, data usage on T-Mobile’s network has skyrocketed! It’s up more than 50%," says Neville Ray, CTO at T-Mobile. In a bid to cater to the growing number of streamers, the network will offer those on unlimited data plans a throttling cap more than double its competitors.

Research from Finnish firm Rewheel has found that American mobile data plans are up to 16 times more expensive than those sold across the EU. In a post-net neutrality world, the creation of telecoms monopolies and fresh surcharges could leave ill-informed consumers even worse off.

From Netflix to Spotify, our smartphones are full of apps and platforms that gobble up mobile data. And as a result, our current 1GB and 2GB plans may not hack it for much longer. In fact, it's estimated that Americans will be using 22GB of data a month by 2021.