A 20% cap on bandwidth would make no sense and if you purchased say a 2Mbps subscription and customers would revolt. But congestion situations are naturally possible and very much increasing due to increased uptake of high bandwidth services due to the (finally) spreading reasonable pricing models over here for data access, availability of USB modems. Maybe the iPhone and clones will eventually have that effect here as well.
Unbeknownst bandwidth caps were implemented on O2 in the UK (128 kbit/s) and on Orange in France (384 kbit/s). These are for mobiles, not broadband modems as I would agree that capping data rates on broadband modems to be crazy (people are paying a lot for the bandwidth and datarates there). I only know because I track iPhone news.
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The question I guess is what is the average situation in Europe vs. US. I don't believe we can answer that question very easily without proper surveys. You've now heard the experience of two user's. That's not a very representative take.
Wired performed a voluntary survey of iPhone 3G performance. Average in Europe is something like 1.8 MBit/s. High average rates are in Australia. But looking at the data, I believe the averages are higher than they should be because of there were some hard to believe 3+ MB/s reports.
For the USA, AT&T caps data rates at 1.5 Mbit/s. That's how I have to interpret since that's what they say. People can probably get more, but probably few and far between. My Sprint broadband card has never gotten more than 1.5 Mbit/s in my travels. T-Mobile just introduced that 3G service about 3 months ago and should be considered irrelevant. Verizon, I don't know. Of course, I've gotten the 50 kbit/s in Silicon Valley too, but there are ample reasons for that.
Anyways, technology/hardware is the same here as it is in Europe as it is in Australia; as is human behavior is the same with only small differences across the glob. All the same kind of problems have to exist.
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And sorry if I blamed you for something you didn't say. It's was the impression I got and I should have been a bit more careful.
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A 20% cap on bandwidth would make no sense and if you purchased say a 2Mbps subscription and customers would revolt. But congestion situations are naturally possible and very much increasing due to increased uptake of high bandwidth services due to the (finally) spreading reasonable pricing models over here for data access, availability of USB modems. Maybe the iPhone and clones will eventually have that effect here as well.
Unbeknownst bandwidth caps were implemented on O2 in the UK (128 kbit/s) and on Orange in France (384 kbit/s). These are for mobiles, not broadband modems as I would agree that capping data rates on broadband modems to be crazy (people are paying a lot for the bandwidth and datarates there). I only know because I track iPhone news.
The question I guess is what is the average situation in Europe vs. US. I don't believe we can answer that question very easily without proper surveys. You've now heard the experience of two user's. That's not a very representative take.
Wired performed a voluntary survey of iPhone 3G performance. Average in Europe is something like 1.8 MBit/s. High average rates are in Australia. But looking at the data, I believe the averages are higher than they should be because of there were some hard to believe 3+ MB/s reports.
For the USA, AT&T caps data rates at 1.5 Mbit/s. That's how I have to interpret since that's what they say. People can probably get more, but probably few and far between. My Sprint broadband card has never gotten more than 1.5 Mbit/s in my travels. T-Mobile just introduced that 3G service about 3 months ago and should be considered irrelevant. Verizon, I don't know. Of course, I've gotten the 50 kbit/s in Silicon Valley too, but there are ample reasons for that.
Anyways, technology/hardware is the same here as it is in Europe as it is in Australia; as is human behavior is the same with only small differences across the glob. All the same kind of problems have to exist.
And sorry if I blamed you for something you didn't say. It's was the impression I got and I should have been a bit more careful.
No problemo.