With carriers the world over doing their best to reduce customers' data usage, Russian telco MegaFon took the unusual step of encouraging bandwidth hogging instead, with prizes going to top downloaders.

That's right, the carrier gave out prizes worth up to $33,000 to a bunch of winners for using the most amount of data within a week on its 3G unlimited data service.

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