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| Bell reckons typical residential customers use ~500GB/month
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FibreOP offers 15/15 and 30/30 tiers so it's roughly the same order of magnitude than VDSL2 offers.
However, VDSL2 Fibe are limited to caps of 125GB for the fastest tier which is plenty according to Bell.
Yet on the FibreOP website they state that there is no hard cap but that the average residential user transfers about 500GB.
The French version is even less evasive:
“À titre d’indication, d’après notre expérience, l’utilisation de la largeur de bande résidentielle type est d’environ 500Go par mois.”
Why would people on VDSL2 use around 5 times less that people on FibreOP with similar speeds?? |
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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:20 | I interpret their wording differently, "within the range of 500GB per month" would mean to me that a "typical" user uses less than that. How much less is impossible to say from this data.
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| While I agree with your interpretation of the english, the french would suggest sunday8pm's interpretation... |
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| reply to Guspaz
I would interpret range to be about 500 GB more or less.
Either way it is an admission that 125 GB is low. |
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 SpikePremium
join:2008-05-16
Toronto, ON | reply to sunday8pm
Bell != Bell Aliant.
Different management and certainly different stances when it comes to raping consumers with annoying overage fees. |
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said by sunday8pm:Why would people on VDSL2 use around 5 times less that people on FibreOP with similar speeds??
*shrug*
Ask George?
george.cope@bell.ca
Let us know what he says. |
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| reply to sunday8pm
Meanwhile in this exact same world Verizon Fios subscribers download and upload dozens of terabytes a month and in South Korea make that hundreds of terabytes a month. Bell seems to be stuck in the prehistoric era. |
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 GonePremium
join:2011-01-24
Fort Erie, ON
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| said by ChuckcZar :Meanwhile in this exact same world Verizon Fios subscribers download and upload dozens of terabytes a month and in South Korea make that hundreds of terabytes a month. Bell seems to be stuck in the prehistoric era. Bell is a BDU. A customer downloading terabytes per month means that they're probably downloading video, which means that they aren't subscribing to Bell TV or Fibe TV, and not watching CTV, TSN and every other channel they own. That's why Bell does what they do.
Yay media consolidation and vertical integration.  |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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START&Cogeco
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1 edit | reply to sunday8pm
Stupid Arses - STILL referring to Monthly Data Traffic/Usage as 'Bandwidth' (This blatant falsehood is stated in the last sentence of the first paragraph).
In reality, Bandwidth is SPEED, such as the (up to) 15 Megabits of downstream bandwidth of some service plans.
Even if Bell HAD any respect from me on any other issues, they would lose it all on THAT one alone. |
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said by DSL_Ricer:While I agree with your interpretation of the english, the french would suggest sunday8pm's interpretation... If I had to translate this in french, it would be: "le client residentiel moyen utilise bien en deca de 500Go/mois".
Bell's wording is somewhat indirect, a clearer and more concise wording would be: "Typical residential subscriber use far less than 500GB per month" and this (as well as the original version) is coherent with the VDSL2 cap. |
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| reply to sunday8pm
Sunday8PM, is this Atlantic Bell Aliant FibreOp or Bell FibreOp (Sudbury) ? |
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GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:20 | reply to InvalidError
said by InvalidError:said by DSL_Ricer:While I agree with your interpretation of the english, the french would suggest sunday8pm's interpretation... If I had to translate this in french, it would be: "le client residentiel moyen utilise bien en deca de 500Go/mois". Bell's wording is somewhat indirect, a clearer and more concise wording would be: "Typical residential subscriber use far less than 500GB per month" and this (as well as the original version) is coherent with the VDSL2 cap. Umm, no, the french that says "l’utilisation de la largeur de bande résidentielle type est d’environ 500Go par mois." would translate as "The large part of residential bandwidth usage is around 500GB per month".
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| said by Guspaz:Umm, no, the french that says "l’utilisation de la largeur de bande résidentielle type est d’environ 500Go par mois." would translate as "The large part of residential bandwidth usage is around 500GB per month". I'm guessing Bell translated from english and the french version is a slip-up. Even Teksavvy which is known to harbor an abnormal proportion of heavy-users likely averages much less than 200GB/month between 300GB and unlimited plans.
Extrapolating from Bell's 35GB/month wholesale average a few years ago and annual growth rates from other sources since then, the current wholesale average should be around 80GB/month now. |
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| said by InvalidError:I'm guessing Bell translated from english and the french version is a slip-up.
I'd have to agree. I have a pretty good read on what our customers use, and 500GB right out of the ballpark.
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