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Undertoad · 08-12-2010, 11:50 AM

The whole Google/Verizon agreement is about mobile.

I don't know, but I would imagine that a large part of the technical issue is guaranteeing latency, not actual bandwidth. Everything on the Internet is a file; a video file could be a 200GB file. But if you want to actually watch video, that 200GB has to be delivered with a certain throughput. A certain number of bits per second, every second. I would imagine that's very difficult on mobile, where you have to do complicated math handing off between cell towers and stuff.

Same goes with voice btw. If big data usage hurts voice, there will be tremendous outrage and a demand for bandwidth allocation to favor voice traffic.

But I doubt there will be a time when you are promised a certain bandwidth and then can't get that on speedtest.net.

08-12-2010, 11:50 AM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The whole Google/Verizon agreement is about mobile. I don't know, but I would imagine that a large part of the technical issue is guaranteeing latency, not actual bandwidth. Everything on the Internet is a file; a video file could be a 200GB file. But if you want to actually watch video, that 200GB has to be delivered with a certain throughput. A certain number of bits per second, every second. I would imagine that's very difficult on mobile, where you have to do complicated math handing off between cell towers and stuff. Same goes with voice btw. If big data usage hurts voice, there will be tremendous outrage and a demand for bandwidth allocation to favor voice traffic. But I doubt there will be a time when you are promised a certain bandwidth and then can't get that on speedtest.net.