60% Of Wireless Network Use To Be Video

I'm not sure you're splooging...

But, still, I hesitate...

Apologies, disregard, allow me to gracefully withdraw.

If that 60% # includes video telephone calls(iOS Facetime & Skype for example), then that # is believable. With the latest smartphones and with higher 4G speeds becoming available, users making video calls will start to become more prevalent and will add a lot of traffic besides just watching YouTube videos.

AT&T wireless has already instituted a solution for this impending bandwidth crunch; simply be unable to provide any throughput capable of supporting video.

3G service in downtown Detroit is so poor/congested/over utilized that Edge is the only way to get any sort of data.

Sheer genius AT&T, simply genius!

Indeed. If there is a flock of 22 million ovine willing to buy a $500 fruit company phone and sign a $1600+ contract for each without so much as checking Consumer Reports, the board of directors should be congratulated for hiring the CEO who made that pact possible.

If that CEO then gets hired on by a socialist government to "turn around" the largest failed nationalist enterprise ... what is he other than a super-genius that would make Ross Perot and Wyle E. Coyote green with envy?

The article you cite actual says, "# Personal video communications will dominate wireless network capacity, such that 10 percent of subscribers consume 90 percent of total network traffic."

Future tense. I'm sure the rule still applies, but that particular comment isn't quite backed up with that data- at least the way I read it.

that the chances are good that the high-end-users are using a sizable amount....right?

So, if the companies wanted to stop these people, they could put up still a high cap and control these runaways....right?

So, why is it I can't get a single person to explain to me how a 2gb/5gb cap somehow answers that issue....I know, it was put in place because Verizon/AT&T claimed that 99.99999% of the universe doesn't go anywhere near those caps yet you can't go to a single place online without many people going near it (like me)

because the people that don't go near the cap are the same people that don't go to those "online places" that you do

duh

I must be pretty lucky then to constantly be finding in real life and on numerous tech sites the only .000001% that comes near their cap-lines.....without any video viewing, btw....

Lucky me

the 90/10 rule is pretty darn old as time, and mostly holds up. Heck, it even works for consuming the world's resources. Wealth. You name it.

Hard to believe, but you are the lucky one.

Then why is it so hard to manage their usage in a more individualized manner than imposing caps across the board...

Something isn't hashing out.

What would you propose as a better method? Usage based billing?

It's BS scare tactics. The companies should instead be HAPPY that the other 90% of people blindly paying for service and not really using it.. THESE are the people who really don't need it and can cancel at any time. They are making enough money!

Right now I am paying for data on 4 phones - Mine, my wifes, my 2 kids. I pay $120 for mobile data right now!!! *I* am really the only one that uses a good about of data - others don't really care since they are in wifi range most the day anyway. BUT if they are greedy and raise the price say 50%, I will gladly cancel ALL their data plans and only have it on mine. They would LOSE money and still have almost same about of data used!

Look, it's just like gym memberships - 90% of the people pay the dues and rarely show up. Because of this, the 10% of heavy users get a "deal" because if every person who had a membership went every day and they had to expand facilities to accommodate all, dues would go up 10x. Who's fault is that? We should NOT be blaming the real users! Be HAPPY that 90% are not using it!

I'm not them of course, but somehow I doubt they've correctly taken into account more recently imposed usage caps and steep overages almost all carriers have adopted. I think video usage will either decline or not rise as steadily as previously because of these new data plans. And as someone else has mentioned, nothing like forecasting something in which you have a(n) (financial) interest.

and, oh, btw...I just had to LOL at an AT&T ad I watched recently..."with plans starting at just $15/month," considering all I've read on BBR. So much for getting the most out of life with your mobile device if you have to pay through your nose to actually do that.

How many real living people make up this 10%? I think it's important to know that. If it's 10% of a 1000 people on a single T1 tower than the carriers need to quit bitching and upgrade their service to handle their over sold markets.
Stop requiring people to have data plans on smart phones, see how much data that would free up. But it's the damnest thing, force someone to buy a service and they actually use the service.
These companies just want money for nothing. If 10 out of 100 people can use 90% percent of the network, then even if they evenly divided that over all 100 people that don't leave crap.