Another interesting point of comparison is that data limits on a VPS like DigitalOcean are $5/month/terabyte, and this includes all other aspects of renting the VPS as well. There are also MVNOs that cost less than $15/month with 1GB data caps. So keeping high bandwidth traffic to a VPS with a low bandwidth cell connection like a terminal emulator could potentially allow someone to access large amounts of data much more efficiently.