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High-Bandwidth Users Are Just Early Adopters

Posted by samzenpus on from the leader-of-the-pack dept.

silverpig writes "Cisco has released a whitepaper on mobile data usage which has some interesting data in it. The top 1% of users consume 20% of the bandwidth, but that share is down from 30% previously. 'Regular' users are catching up as they watch more video. High-bandwidth users of today will be relatively average users by 2015, so network operators should look to those users for insight in designing their future networks."

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  1. Re:But.. But... by bsDaemon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a difference between "conflict of interest" and "we know what we're talking about," although the two do sometimes overlap.

  2. Re:IPv4 by C_amiga_fan · · Score: 5, Insightful

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