Cutting the cord is great unless you have data caps. While I only use about 3-6 gbs on Sprint a month. I use 310-400gbs of data a month on Cox and they have a cap of 300gigs that I go over almost every month even when we try not to. They send me a letter saying they can cut off service if I don't stop every month while before I cut off cable this never happened. Netflix alone uses 2.4 gbs a hour. Not to mention hulu, amazon instant, streaming music, downloading music. I can see why he would want to do this. I probably would use Sprint a little more but not alot as I don't want to be a data hog.