Thread: Top 1% of Mobile Users use half of world's bandwidth

Most businesses these day now have on site wifi and the same with most of us at home. So why don't this top 1% understand they should be surcharged, capped and pay more than the rest of us; like me whom only use 25% of his 2gb of data on my iphone last month because I have it set to use wifi first. You suck up all the bandwidth you should pay for it.

Originally Posted by Islandguy43

Most businesses these day now have on site wifi and the same with most of us at home. So why don't this top 1% understand they should be surcharged, capped and pay more than the rest of us; like me whom only use 25% of his 2gb of data on my iphone last month because I have it set to use wifi first. You suck up all the bandwidth you should pay for it.

The problem is that it is not a problem in Europe where the cell phone companies work to provide the capacity needed for unlimited at lower prices. Note that all the talk of capping is in North America. Canada started it all with their near monopoly, they capped home broadband and wireless all the time. US providers have tried to follow both at home and cellular connections. Not that there is really a bandwidth shortage, but a shortage of the companies investing.

Home broadband costs less than 1 cent per GB to deliver. The capping is just trying to protect video revenues and generate more profit. Cellular is closer to 10 cents. If they charged overages at a 100% markup, $1 should get you 5 more GB (i.e. 20 cents).

I would be happy to pay realistic rates for my data consumption. I pay $30 for unlimited. If it were say limited to 10GB (i.e. $1 in real cost to the phone company and the rest for overhead and profit) then $1 for each 5GB I go over, fine. Everyone would make money. And they demonstrate it works in EU. In fact they say go ahead and be unlimited because few are ever going to use 300GB a month that a $30 bill would cover.

The same goes for the home market. Charge me $20 for a 50 mbit connection and then 2 cents a GB.

Also it is not the top 1% it actually 7.6%+ since they were counting world wide cell phone users of which 87% do not even have a data plan.

Like I mentioned above this was writting to try to make people mad thinking that some small group is driving everyones bill up by sucking down all the data in the world. When in reality the heaviest use customers are in Europe and they have no issue. This seems like a plant from AT&T or VZ to try to justify their lack of investment and near duopoly status. Poor Sprint is trying, but they are losing out on all the overage charges.

Why are you having to buy 2GB of data every month when you only use 500MB? Because AT&T knows that most their customers cannot live on the 200MB plan, so they priced accordingly to max profits.

Here is why, and who uses all that bandwidth.

New iPhone doubles data consumption: study | Reuters

Note how consumption went up from iPhone 3 to 4, and then way up to 4S.
It's all Apple's fault! - -

Mike123,

That price you are quoting for data delivery includes no costs for infrastructure or amortized plant/last mile costs. There are terrific long and mid term costs associated with both of those that needs to be factored in.

They are often overlooked, but should not be.



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