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[ NNSquad ] Concerns about mobile network data capacity
Concerns about mobile network data capacity http://bit.ly/36w5Hm (BBC) I find it ironic that at the same time mobile operators are continually promoting their moves to higher speed 4G, 5G, and so on, it's increasingly obvious that investments in backhaul bandwidths just haven't kept up most of the time. One wonders if this isn't actually a form of shell game, where the ultimate plan in some cases is to sucker people in with flat rate data service, then down the line force them to measured. Of course, we've already had one of the big carriers suggesting something similar would be desirable for their own landline Internet access services ... One other note about the BBC piece -- the described page compression techniques naturally assume that the carrier has unencrypted access to the users' traffic -- a condition that hopefully will be ever less common as time goes by. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator