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... Your wireless network service is best effort. This is why your service provider doesn't have to compensate you for dropped calls or dropped packets or tower
by josh2600 12y ago
... Your wireless network service is best effort. This is why your service provider doesn't have to compensate you for dropped calls or dropped packets or towers with insufficient capacity.
The word "promise" is not an accurate reading of the legal concepts at play in bandwidth purchase. Dedicated bandwidth for consumers is expensive and completely unavailable on cellular networks.
Verizon also doesn't have to let iPhones connect to their network and only does so because they benefit financially from the relationship. Trust me, putting a device onto a major cellular network in the US is highly political, full of peril and financial alchemy.
Source: I do lots of telecom stuff specifically around wireless.
- pionar 12y ago> Your wireless network service is best effort. Wouldn't intentionally throttling and/or not keeping up your capacity intentionally be a violation of this "best effort" doctrine? Not arguing, honest question.
- josh2600 12y agoTo the best of my knowledge, Net Neutrality doesn't apply to wireless networks.
- pionar 12y agoAh, I misread that. Sorry.
- wtallis 12y agoHowever, false advertising laws do apply. If they advertise "up to 40Mb/s", then they can't configure their routers to throttle you to 10Mb/s - they can only drop below 40Mb/s due to real contention for limited bandwidth as a result of high utilization.