AT&T has determined that its iPhone users are using too much bandwidth. In fact, just a few percent of iPhone users account for nearly half of the bandwidth that its iPhone customers require. AT&T proposes to 'educate' these users, or else to charge them more, to make them cut back. This sort of misguided thinking by our Internet providers threatens to push United States Networking back into the dark ages of computing.
In fact, iPhone's 'leading edge' users are requiring the sort of bandwidth that fifty percent of iPhone users will require in about three years. AT&T's job is to plan for those needs, not to scuttle them. The bottom line? AT&T, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the iPhone.
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Out of curiosity, who is going to have the capacity to handle all those iPhone users (not to mention Blackberry users, Android users and, dare I include, Palm Pre users...)?
In the past, I believe our Govt has offered subsidies to the big carriers to build up their capacity. It hasn't worked very well.
- PB
Remember: whenever the pizza is free, you'll never have enough pizza.....
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