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Nice of CNN to dutifully report that "the problem with carriers' price tiers is customers' download demands are quickly encroaching on wireless providers' limit
by Bud 15y ago
Nice of CNN to dutifully report that "the problem with carriers' price tiers is customers' download demands are quickly encroaching on wireless providers' limits as mobile video usage explodes."
What nonsense.
I also love the alarmist linked graphic at:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/08/technology/smartphone_data_usage/index.htm?iid=EL http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/08/technology/smartphone_data_u...
...which, if you believe their arbitrarily-guessed-at trendline, delivers the shocking news that by 2015, users might, on average...uh, still be downloading less than 2gig a month.
Label me entirely unconcerned with the carriers' ability to deal with this data "explosion". They just want to charge more. That's the only story here.
- jamesbkel 15y agoThat is a truly ridiculous chart. Another sign that it's complete BS is they describe the growth as "exponential" yet the trendline appears linear and the axis is not logarithmic. I think the author is conflating "exponential" with "really fast".