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.

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Begs the question...

[Pollux]

From the article...

And then the downloads began: 14 seasons of MythBusters; 24 seasons of The Simpsons; the entire Wikipedia database; Microsoft software for his job; updates for his Xbox games; and "a lot of random other stuff". He also synced all his Spotify playlists offline..."It's always movie/TV night at my house at the moment."

With all that binge-watching, when does he ever has any time to do his job?

It is called Pareto principle

[Trachman]

1. Download the list of users.
2. Sort by the usage
3. Select the top user

For the selected user publicly start shaming, start puffing cheeks and rolling eyes.

Well, that is statistics... You will always have a percentile that uses more service than others. The question is why this is a surprise.

Mr Vilfredo Pareto discovered this phenomena 120 years ago.

The unrelenting march of technological progress

[red_dragon]

This 1 TB/day threshold rang a bell as I remembered a BSD trumpeting a similar record, albeit in the opposite direction, in the late 1990s... and sure enough, Slashdot covered it back then:

Wcarchive Does 1.39tb In 24 Hours

Back then people had serious discussions about what sort of storage controller, network interface, and upstream connectivity was needed to achieve this result. Nowadays we can stuff that same performance in a trouser pocket. What an age to live in.