MyDogHsFleas
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 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Southwest
1 edit | Bandwidth caps are not relevant to IPTV
As I've pointed out many times in these forums, comparing U-verse TV to streaming video over the Internet to your PC, and then crying foul because there are bandwidth caps coming on the streaming video but not on the TV stream, is a complete non sequitur.
When you make this comparison, you are either simply not paying attention to the facts involved, or you are deliberately ignoring them for the sake of promulgating an inane anti-AT&T conspiracy theory.
Why? It's simple. With U-verse IPTV, one video channel essentially equals one single video stream on the network, FOR ALL USERS. So if there are 50,000 users watching a show, there's only ONE STREAM ON THE BACKBONE.
By contrast, if those same 50,000 users are watching streaming video from a server to their PC, that's 50,000 SEPARATE VIDEO STREAMS ON THE BACKBONE.
So, the statement "They are going to cap my Internet, that's anti-competitive, they just want me to use their TV service instead of streaming/downloaded video on my PC!" turns out to be completely unsupportable crap. |
