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Half Of World’s Bandwidth Consumed By Only 1% of Users
- nowarninglabel 15y agoBad title, on their part and here, as its 'mobile bandwidth usage' that is being discussed, not all bandwidth usage.
- th0ma5 15y agoThese are simply the early adopters of the future, right?
- freehunter 15y agoThe carriers (and in this case, the advertising firm, I didn't see who commissioned the study though) keep complaining about people using too much data, and use that to increase prices and throttle people for using the data they paid for. Let me say that again: using the plans the carriers sold them. They can't stock phones and advertise their mobile web (AT&T is the fastest in the country!) services and Netflix and 4G and all these apps then complain about people using it. If the carriers are so concerned, why do they allow Windows Phones that have unlimited music being streamed to the phone, why do they allow phones that have Netflix or Youtube, why do they allow Android to serve videos from their Market? Advertising a service as fast and available anywhere then shutting it down when you start to use it is bait and switch, pure and simple. I know towers have limited capacity and adding new towers is expensive. But how much profit did AT&T rake in last year? And how much of that is going to providing better 3G and 4G service to avoid data caps? I was on Alltel unlimited data and used to use the shit out of my 3G plan. Alltel got bought by AT&T and now I'm on 2GB per month. I'll admit I never use 3G anymore, so it's effective.