wierdo
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Re: If wireless is different, then so what? 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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