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"corporations would give up their free money piggy bank is untethered from reality" Bandwidth is absolutely not free, to suggest that carriers Ops and Capex s
by jariel 7y ago
"corporations would give up their free money piggy bank is untethered from reality"
Bandwidth is absolutely not free, to suggest that carriers Ops and Capex somehow represents a 'free money piggy bank' is actually untethered from reality. There are possibly some alterations that could be made, but it's basically false to suggest that their product is detached from underlying cost.
- Scoundreller 7y agoIf your usage is outside of the 95th percentile, ya, it’s free. Not using it is just a waste because you’ll never get it back. You can’t bank spectrum.
- jariel 7y agoWho said anything about costs at the margin, i.e. 95th percentile? You've just 'moved the goalposts' across the field :) Bandwidth is a commodity like anything else and has underlying structural costs - it's far from free in any sense of the word. Even at the 95th percentile, as you say, there's no guarantee that there's unused bandwidth at all.
- Scoundreller 7y agoWe’re talking about caps. As in, gb/month that residential users are often subjected to.