The figures are not scientific at all. I was just making a rough guess. My thinking went something like this.
Internet Explorer tells me I have been connected 46 minutes and have downloaded 1,100,763 Bytes. That averages 400 bps.
If the wireless network allowed 24 users per cell downloading 100,000bps non-stop, then 6000 users could be supported at these rates ignoring network overhead and the fact that a 500msec delay is not long enough to get full utilization of the theoretical capacity due to the "granularity" of data requests.
Also, I'm sure I'm not as "frantic" of a browser as many. I like to read and digest etc. I keep multiple browser windows active on the toolbar so I can switch from task to task. I would be interested if others would submit the Bps transmitted figures of their current session, as I have done above.
For these reason, I reduced the amount to a nice round 1/100 continuous download amounts. That gave 2400 users in the same space of 700 voice users which may still be high for the reasons above. But it illustrates that a lot of users can get "zippy" data service without hogging the airwaves.
I think if users pay per Mb, then the above scenarios make sense. I don't understand where I.J. is coming from when he says all you can eat for one low price. I think if you give users access to high-speed data at all you can eat prices, then people will use the zippy, high-bandwidth connections to download photos, porn, music, video and the whole model is shot (at least in crowded urban areas) until more bandwidth is available to the carriers.
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