

It was previously 20MB





Source: Windows Phone Central

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RE: What's the point of this?
By theapparition on 1/22/2013 10:46:58 AM , Rating: 2
This was actually to protect users.

This isn't a download cap, but a cap on how big of an application you can download over a cellular network before it requires you to use Wifi to download that same application.

In other words, if you try to download Angry Birds and it was 20.1MB, it would previously require that you were on a WiFi network to download vs allowing you to download over the cellular connection. Now the cap has moved to 50MB.

The limits were put there to help prevent people from going over data usage limits as well as limiting the bandwidth required for cellular connections. Imagine an update goes live and everyone on the network suddenly decides they want to upgrade their 300MB app. It would cause network disruption, of which avoiding that is the primary goal of all providers.

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