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Originally Posted by MV64
I just don't understand bandwidth at all. It seems so abstract. Why don't they just make more? I don't know what that entails, be it more structures or better, more efficient wiring or whatever, but it seems silly to me all this trouble over bandwidth. It seems like some artificial limitation to allow companies to make more money.
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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.