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Re: Could 3G data price cuts soon make an appearance? said by fAcEtIOUs:said by Rob:Not unless some company starts up and offers 3G data at a much more reasonable price with a larger cap (20GB-30GB). The existing cell tower infrastructure can't support the load that raised caps would put on them. It depends on how you look at it. A neighborhood all downloading torrents at the same time? Yeah, no one will be able to use their cell phones. 1-2 people doing casual surfing downloading...it will probably be fine.
But, this is why god brought down the wonderful concept of QOS. If 10 people are all bit-torrenting at once then throttle them and other heavy users to low bandwidth to allow other users the ability to use it. Makes sense no? Kick back the heavy use users, while allowing the average users a good "user experience". Or we can take the illogical Comcast approach and just block everything under the sun (ok so they just blocked torrents).
If companies are really worried about the towers not supporting all the users, then we have bigger problems...like where are our monthly payments going to? I mean on average a person pays $50/month, times what? a million customers? This is 2009 and not 1999, either the companies get with the times or leave the industry. |
