Wireless limits have to be hit some day. Each tower supports one bandwidth-worth of traffic no matter how many users are in that area. Imagine a wired network with hundreds of people on one switch.
Of course they are handling it badly. But its not the case that they have any simple recourse - a successful ad campaign resulted in oversubscribed bandwidth. They can install more towers - lag time: months or years to get the right-of-way. They can improve cacheing etc on their end. And they can get folks to use it less.
Not only that, but more users for them means more money to buy hardware and upstream bandwidth and hopefully some profit. That's the reason people are paying them.
Perhaps telecom is different than most markets, but more users generally drives costs down, not up.
Agreed, there is only so much that can be fixed with hardware (hardware would help spotty coverage in the US, for example).
As has been stated earlier, if they can't provide it, they shouldn't be selling it (and if the laws of physics don't permit what they are selling, they shouldn't be selling it).
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Wireless limits have to be hit some day. Each tower supports one bandwidth-worth of traffic no matter how many users are in that area. Imagine a wired network with hundreds of people on one switch.
Of course they are handling it badly. But its not the case that they have any simple recourse - a successful ad campaign resulted in oversubscribed bandwidth. They can install more towers - lag time: months or years to get the right-of-way. They can improve cacheing etc on their end. And they can get folks to use it less.
They will have to buy it from some other company then: if they don't have the bandwith, they shouldn't sell it.
Not only that, but more users for them means more money to buy hardware and upstream bandwidth and hopefully some profit. That's the reason people are paying them.
Perhaps telecom is different than most markets, but more users generally drives costs down, not up.
Wireless bandwidth is absolutely limited - there is only one "over-the-air" channel. Well, one per tower, kind of.
Then, to buy from somebody else you have to presuppose some open, free market with excess bandwidth. That doesn't exist today.
Agreed, there is only so much that can be fixed with hardware (hardware would help spotty coverage in the US, for example).
As has been stated earlier, if they can't provide it, they shouldn't be selling it (and if the laws of physics don't permit what they are selling, they shouldn't be selling it).