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> For some of us I suspect it's a small enough minority nobody is too worried about it from a policy point of view.
by ska 6y ago
> For some of us
I suspect it's a small enough minority nobody is too worried about it from a policy point of view.
- sneak 6y agoLong-haul truckers are 1% of the US population, which is something like 3 or 4 million people. I'm sure that number pales in comparison to the number of truckers, oil workers, and construction types globally that spend weeks or months on the road at a time. It's probably easily 100 million people that will immediately directly benefit from increased mobile bandwidth. That's not even counting the dozens of developing countries where they just skipped cabling altogether and mobile data is the only internet access available. That probably boops the figure up to a billion or more.
- ska 6y agoSure, and internationally I think it's a big deal. I'm certainly not going to argue that people wouldn't benefit from increased mobile bandwidth. However, huge chunk of those people you mention are nothing like mobile only, and for many the model of heavier downloads on wifi works just fine. My point was particularly about catering to the mobile only crowd, which is pretty small (US/ EU etc., anyway).