The divide between urban and rural connectivity is widening at a terrifying pace.
10G is lower than 0.20/Mb in many places now. - Josh On Jun 21, 2017 10:51 AM, "Steve Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: > metered billing.. wave of the future > > > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I read some scary stuff the other day along a similar vein. >> >> Basically if you're selling 25mbps then you'll need a 4:1 >> oversubscription ratio to support peak hours hi def streaming without >> complaint. >> As adoption of 4K video increases, that ratio will approach 1:1. You'll >> have to either start supplying 100meg, or start billing for >> consumption....or jack the price way up. >> >> They were looking only at streaming video trends, and didn't even >> consider stuff like this. >> >> >> >> ------ Original Message ------ >> From: "Jeremy" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: 6/21/2017 1:03:09 AM >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ready for the Xbox one X and 100GB games? >> >> Yeah, this sucks for us. Even worse, many of these games come out with >> dual licenses so that you can play on Windows 10 or XB1 for the same >> purchase. I bought a couple games and checked it out. It was amazing to >> be able to just continue my Halo Wars right where I left off on my laptop, >> but it was double the download size. This makes Forza potentially 200GB, >> without DLC. When you are providing customers 300-500GB per month without >> overages it makes heavy Xbox customers very quickly switch providers. I'm >> not sure if that is a blessing or a curse. For now, it has not been a >> gigantic churn issue for us, but the future of 4K content will likely hit >> us all pretty hard. >> >> My main issue with this is that purchasing a disc is not an option. I >> initially bought discs, only to find that even after ripping them to the >> hard drive, I have to walk down to the network closet to insert the disc. >> Digitally purchased games can just be loaded from a menu, like all of the >> hacked consoles. There is no option to 'upgrade' to a digital license if >> you have purchased a disc. Also, if you own multiple Xbox One consoles >> (say at home and at work), you can play any of your games on either >> console, at any time, just not simultaneously. Discs are now useless to >> me. The only way to get this digital license is to download it from the >> Internet (or hack the console...not yet an option). This has been a big >> bummer to heavy Xbox users when they get hit with massive overages, and >> they usually switch to Comcast. >> >> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> This will be the new normal with the next generation Xbox, when many >>> customers start bringing them home... >>> >>> https://m.hardocp.com/news/2017/06/18/forza_motorsport_7_wil >>> l_be_100gb_download >>> >>> >>> >> >
