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For most customers, current bandwidth is fine usually(and even in the countries with highest monthly download, the average is 10GB/month), so this is less inter
by petra 10y ago
For most customers, current bandwidth is fine usually(and even in the countries with highest monthly download, the average is 10GB/month), so this is less interesting.
But this network has a an order-of-magnitude larger theoretical cell capacity and since most costs are infrastructure costs, cost-per-GB for carriers should be 5x-9x lower. And there are other innovations around the corner , which together with this promise something like 25x-50x cell capacity improvement. And
So bandwidth is becoming abundant. The only question: will prices reflect that?
- tw04 10y agoGiven how much more abundant it is on the wired side, and the fact they're all now introducing caps - no. The only way to increase profits when you're a monopoly is to charge more money for your product. The only way to do that when there's no ACTUAL scarcity is to create artificial scarcity through caps.
- rhino369 10y ago>But this network has a an order-of-magnitude larger theoretical cell capacity Does it? It seems like they just have more available spectrum. 4x4 MIMO and 64bitQAM help, but not an order of magnitude in practice.