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Old 01-07-2012, 12:46 PM   #13
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Bandwidth is the amount of data that the network can carry at a given time. Certainly the provider can "make more", but to do so costs money, in the form of hardware infrastructure, the cost of which will inevitably be passed on to the customer. For a cellular operator to have too much capacity is as bad as to have too little, since the unused capacity still has to be paid for - by the customer.
Each individual cell tower also has a finite limit on the amount of data and number of simultaneous users it can support. I understand that this is usually where the real problem lies - the fact that there are underutilized towers in Ky. at a particular time doesn't help at all when towers in Chicago are overwhelmed.

It also means that there is a time issue to all of this - streaming 8 hours of video between midnight and 8am is less disruptive than streaming 8 hour of video from 4pm to midnight.
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