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Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz)
An anonymous reader cites an amusing article on Stuff: When Telstra offered its mobile customers unlimited data for two separate days this year as compensation for network outages, some customers took it as a challenge to download as much as they possibly could in one day. On Sunday, 27-year-old Sydney resident John Szaszvari outdid himself and everyone else by ploughing through almost a whole terabyte of data. That's more than double what he managed during the first free data day in February -- an already mammoth 425GB.
1Gb uplink is only because they don't want to spend the extra $5k for a 10Gb or 40Gb uplink. On a $22mil install, that's free. When it comes to lots of clients, TDMA is sub-par to CDMA. In theory, a CDMA tower can support millions of connected devices, you just need enough processing power from the ASICs. CDMA scales nearly linearly with processing power, the number of towers, and the number of channels, while having virtually no issue with all towers using the same channels.
Technology keeps making equipment cheaper and faster at a phenomenal rate, something close to 100% faster and 50% cheaper every year on average. That's 4x the bandwidth for the same cost. Instead of doing "light upgrades", maybe they need to make towers more modular to allow for semi-regular medium upgrades.