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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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Re: If wireless is different, then so what? said by wierdo:You haven't heard of the shannon limit, I take it? That's not limited to wireless. Wireless has more noise, but discriminating useful signal from that noise has always been an improving capability (wireless and wired). To say that wireless is merely behind would be a simplification of reality, but it's effectively true: wireless is following where wired has already tread.
said by wierdo:Personally, I think the carriers in other countries have the right idea. You buy unlimited service for whatever price and after the first few GB of transfer in a month, the user gets throttled to a lower speed, to avoid people monopolizing scarce air time. Several US carriers are doing this, too, rather quietly. They characterize the service as "unlimited" but actually it's limited.
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| said by funchords:That's not limited to wireless. Wireless has more noise, but discriminating useful signal from that noise has always been an improving capability (wireless and wired). To say that wireless is merely behind would be a simplification of reality, but it's effectively true: wireless is following where wired has already tread. The difference is that with a wire, you have 1 GHz or more of bandwidth to work with. Even the most spectrum-heavy carrier is lucky to have a tenth or twentieth of that in a few markets, and more like a hundredth in many.
Several US carriers are doing this, too, rather quietly. They characterize the service as "unlimited" but actually it's limited.
I strongly disagree with that characterization. My cable service is not "limited" (in the sense of "opposite of unlimited data transfer") merely because it has speed tiers. As best I can divine from your statement, you think my cable company ought not be able to advertise "unlimited" service unless they let the modem run uncapped?
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said by funchords:To say that wireless is merely behind would be a simplification of reality, but it's effectively true: wireless is following where wired has already tread. And wireless providers don't want to lose control and end up with the same issues they currently face with wire line. If they can keep the choke hold on, then even if wireless ever does catch up... it'll always be different... their cash cow foreva. | |
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