said by 78204168:as a VZW HomeFusion subscriber, I'm confused at how they are trying to eat up more of their bandwidth with broadcast television programming. Unless they are admitting that they really have no network congestion issues on their LTE networks, so the practice of data capping is completely not needed.
Broadcast is different. Just like a TV broadcast can go into millions of homes on just 19 Mbps or less of bandwidth. Broadcast is ONE way commination. 1000 people trying to watch a show currently is 1000 connections. Broadcasting it via LTE would be ONE. Not to mention that broadcast would more than likely be on it's own frequency. Right now Verizon only has LTE in a 20 MHz strip of the 700 MHz band. 10 MHz downlink 10 MHz uplink. That will change later.
A little education. A cell tower has 3 sectors each sectors can handle a TOTAL of 150 Mbps downlink with LTE with 10 MHz of bandwidth. That's total not per user. Now if you've got a person tethering their phone to a PC and watching HD Netflix at 5 Mbps well simple math tells you 30 people doing that uses up all the bandwidth. Do you live in a area where only 30 use cell phones? You might have 500 or more connections on a sector at one time. 150 Mbps doesn't go far with that many users.
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