On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:52 PM, Måns Nilsson wrote: > Subject: Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:49:38AM > -0400 Quoting chris (tknch...@gmail.com): >> Overall, IMO the trends are just seem to be going backwards. We have more >> speed but we can use it less? What kind of technology advancement is that? >> >> I've had "unlimited" gprs, edge, 3g, and never really seen any kind of >> actual cap. Sure they were slower but I didn't have to worry about getting >> surprised on my next bill. If my edge from 5+ years ago could 3gb/day and >> 90gb a month how is 4G at 5gb an improvement of the service? > > In Sweden, I've seen several people in public transportation run > Bittorrent clients on 3G. There might have been 9g a month for you > back then, but nobody else did it. Now, every laptop has a 3G card. And > they're getting used. With a sensible distribution of users over cells, > the bottleneck is backhaul. Many towers started out with a couple bundled > E1 circuits. Upgrading them to Ethernet over something (because Ethernet > is the new black) costs a lot, apparently.
Takes a lot of E1s to support a couple hundred Mb/s of down-stream capacity. The capital expended on providing the facility has to include expanded capicty otherwise it doesn't make much sense to roll new technology in the first place. > OTOH, never underestimate "Because we can". > > -- > Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina > MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 > Hmmm ... an arrogant bouquet with a subtle suggestion of POLYVINYL > CHLORIDE ...
