The worlds congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of wireless bandwidth.[/url]
Carriers are getting much more agressive in monitoring/finding tethering users. ATT & Verizon have been sending out nastygrams for close to a year on phone users hijacking the hotspot function on their phones without a subscription.
Since when is "bandwidth" a finite resource that is "consumed"?
Since when is "bandwidth" a finite resource that is "consumed"?
how much can you possibly download on Steam? do you download the same games over and over every night?
What business is it of theirs what I do with my phone?
What business is it of theirs what I do with my phone?
If the daughters laptop needs internet, she uses something like pdanet. If she wants to watch youtube or get on facebook, she does it on her phone,,,,.
The Arieso survey found that 64 percent of extreme users were using a laptop, a third were using a smartphone and 3 percent had an iPad.
Since when is "bandwidth" a finite resource that is "consumed"?
Which will impact far more than the 1%.Here come the bandwidth caps.
Yea, but I have to wonder why on the phone? I guess if you're tethering all the time I could see it, but short of that, personally the instances where I only have access to my phone and time for any of that are pretty limited. Like when I only have my phone I'm out to dinner or outside working out or in a meeting or generally occupied with 'something'. Maybe the difference is my phone is my 'last resort' and other's treat it with more preference.
Wireless bandwidth is actually quite finite within a single area. You can always lay more fiber but there's only so many things you can do with a piece of spectrum.
really?
I would wait to use my home wifi to download any apps, movies, music..etc,
I don't get why people would use their mobile data to download crap when they can go home and do it.
really?
I would wait to use my home wifi to download any apps, movies, music..etc,
I don't get why people would use their mobile data to download crap when they can go home and do it.
You must not have an LTE capable phone.
when at work my wimax connection is as fast as my dsl at home so...
I'm taking your numbers at face value, so let's say your top users are transmitting 320GB/month. I don't torrent or stream intellectual property and I average about 75GB/month, but I could probably use 300+ pretty easily. Stuff like online gaming, Steam downloads, Netflix HD streams, Remote Desktop, etc. could use a whole lot of data, if I had the time. Just wait until your TV and phone become all IP based. I see a big fight coming between content providers and service providers, with the consumer probably losing.
I simply cannot comprehend how someone uses that much bandwidth on phone. I mean, yes, you can rattle off "Stream Pandora for 10 hours a day, watch 3 Netflix movies, etc" but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. If I wanted to watch Inception, I would watch it in my home theatre or at least on a LCD monitor. In what situation are you watching a Netflix movie a day on your phone?! Why would you want to?