[wavejockglw]

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

If the majority of BT or Virgin Media fibre customers used their broadband for torrenting 20TB a month their network couldn't cope either.

All consumer internet providers "gamble" on the basis customers won't cane their connection 24/7/365, that gamble is the fundamental basis of contended service that allow them to be this cheap to begin with. You just have to provide enough service for most people to use the connection the way they want to most of the time.

Exactly.... however marketing wireless broadband on a 3G network as unlimited attracts lots of heavy users as 3's proportion of mobile data proves. With current bandwidth including LTE it's been reported in white papers that 5GB per customer per month is about the limit presently. Not sure what that would be without LTE but it's apparent there are some areas where 3 have many mobile broadband users and that must make for some local difficulties. I know many asylum seekers use 3 as it's much less costly than subscribing to fixed line services and they tend to live in specific areas, which leads to some very poor speeds even with DC-HSDPA. Doubtless in suburbia where cable, fibre and fast broadband is more common there will be less of an issue for mobile operators, especially when most phones jump onto Wi-Fi where it's available.

BTW: Happy 2014 qasdfdsaq, your contributions have brought a breath of fresh air to this forum!

[jchamier]

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

On the other hand FTTC provides 17Mhz (soon to be upgraded to 30Mhz) spectrum for every single individual user

I don't think Openreach will bother with 30Mhz on FTTC as they are getting enough issues with cross talk. I suspect we will see vectoring deployed first to attempt to bring up the people who are within 500m of a cabinet but only getting 25megabit or less (in non cabled areas, no competition). If vectoring works, I can see 30Mhz being rolled out to increase top end speeds.

2014 will be the year of 'wires only' VDSL with the big rollout of all in one routers, and then we will see if the various vendors are all compatible - or if this also increases crosstalk artefacts.