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Love the idea!

aeternavi

Jun 19, 2014, 11:05 AM
Why is it though that all the good stuff comes from the carrier with the smallest footprint? I really wish they were in my area. They come out with some great ideas and then the other three lemmings of carriers follow suit months later. One day, perhaps the others will get a lightbulb going off in their head.
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Joshmo

Jun 19, 2014, 11:51 AM
aeternavi said:
Why is it though that all the good stuff comes from the carrier with the smallest footprint? I really wish they were in my area. They come out with some great ideas and then the other three lemmings of carriers follow suit months later. One day, perhaps the others will get a lightbulb going off in their head.

Net neutrality out the window
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T Bone

Jun 19, 2014, 5:23 PM
You just mentioned the best thing about it.
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brad162

Jun 20, 2014, 12:28 AM
Well while this could be a "net neutrality" issue, it's just simply that the network can easily handle everyone's streaming music usage now, so it's flat unlimited.

Streaming HD video is what is causing bottlenecks in the current level of tech, so that's what's effectively being throttled as even the "throttled" speed is plenty fast for web browsing and maps.

Let's say 300 users connected to a cell site is streaming a 192kbps stream, that's ~57Mbps being consumed on a gigabit fiber line, something easily sustained without load on even a 10x10 LTE network.

Now let's say the same 300 people stream a 3Mbps Netflix title.. that's 900Mbps of data T-Mobile has to come up with to accommodate the usage, thus why it's counted toward the cap,...
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