That's good news probably !!!!. Pues si fueran fallas ya hubieran dicho
algo imagino, además la semana pasada anunciaron interrupciones por mejoras
a la red pero parece no las hicieron. Me pregunto si ustedes notan algo
diferente cada, vez que regresan los datos móviles?.
O pasará con el internet movil en Cuba como con el hockey sobre hielo
olímpico que Alemania elimino a Canadá y nos quedamos fuera de las medallas
y con las ganas? En minutos Rusia vs Alemania por el Oro. Grrrrr!!!!.
Canadá parece terminará en tercer lugar con 29 medallas total superando su
mejor actuación pero que dejen el hielo y la nieve en Corea del Sur sabe
!!! jejeje
Y ahora off topic he aquí un artículo publicado en FORBES de hace 2 años
donde incluso el CEO de T-Mobile arremete contra los consumidores por
"robar" data móvil vía Tethering . Sorry esta en inglés y es largo.
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Here's why cell carriers freak out when you use your unlimited data
John Legere, CEO and President of T-Mobile US.
STACEY HIGGINBOTHAM
SEP 17, 2015 11:41 AM EDT
In a story almost as old as unlimited mobile data plans, there has been a
fight over those who provide the plans and those who actually test the
boundaries on what unlimited use actually means. This week AT&T said it
would only start throttling users on its unlimited plans when they reached
about 22 GB per month, as opposed to 5 GB per month, in response to a
Federal Communication Commission fine.
Last month T-Mobile CEO John Legere accused customers of “stealing data” by
using their data plans on their smartphones as a Wi-Fi hot spot (also known
as tethering). Users of T-Mobile’s network can do this up until they hit 7
GB gigabytes of data on their $80 a month plan, but after that point, they
need to buy more. What Legere was accusing these users of doing was
basically going around T-Mobile’s software barriers and using their phones
as a Wi-Fi hot spot beyond those limits, and using T-Mobile’s data network
to provide connectivity to devices outside of the smartphone.
This is such a problem for carriers because with larger screens and faster
processors a laptop can consume three times more bandwidth as a smartphone
(or more). If someone on T-Mobile’s network tethers he will gobble far more
data than even a heavy smartphone user. That’s why carriers have those
limits in place, and why carriers like Verizon didn’t even allow tethering
early in the flush of unlimited data plans.
The T-Mobile story brought attention back to tethering, a practice that has
been around for at least a decade if not longer. Late last week the Wall
Street Journal wrote a story discussing some of the apps that people on
T-Mobile’s network used to tether their phones, such as TetherMe or
CarrierCrack. The story included a sympathetic figure who tethered because
he lived in a rural area lacking access to high-quality wireline broadband.
That dearth of quality internet access is why the FCC is pushing for mobile
broadband to be added to its broadband competition report. It’s also why
consumers groups are up in arms about the fact that, as Verizon and AT&T
pull out of serving rural areas with copper telephone lines, they are also
pulling out of serving rural areas with copper-based DSL broadband. Entire
swathes of the country will be left behind when it comes to decent
broadband speeds.
But wireless providers can’t actually pick up the slack in many cases
because costs and physics won’t let them. Legere can let people use
unlimited data on their smartphones because he understands the limits of
those devices and how much data they can actually funnel. Once people turn
that phone into a hot spot, however, all bets are off, and using 300 GB or
a terabyte of data really can play havoc with a carrier’s network and costs.
This is a battle that breaks out every few years between savvy mobile users
who want access to data wherever they are, and mobile operators who are
providing faster and faster mobile broadband networks while also charging
relatively high prices for that connectivity, or blocking services that
they perceive to compete with their own. Caught in between are consumers
and developers who don’t necessarily understand the economics of carrier
networks and who don’t trust the carriers to avoid meddling with the
ecosystem to their own advantage.
When it comes to cellular networks, every carrier is limited by the
licensed airwaves over which it can send data. When the FCC conducts
auctions for spectrum carriers spend billions buying airwaves. They will
spend billions more placing base stations and equipment tuned to that
frequency to send data around the country. Building a wireless network
isn’t cheap. But that’s not the main problem. The real challenge is physics.
Carriers are bound by Shannon’s Law, which dictates how many bits of
information can be crammed into a single hertz of spectrum. The goal with
every wireless technology evolution from 3G to 4G is to get more and more
bits per hertz, and so far, LTE, the current generation wireless
technology, is as economical as it gets. However, LTE has achieved about
all the efficiency is can, which means that all carriers can do is allocate
more spectrum to the network if their users require more bits. In short,
carriers are running the most efficient car they have, so now all they can
do is buy more gas.
There are some short-term solutions to this problem, such as allocating
more base stations and using different antenna arrays on those base
stations to optimize network capacity, but in the end cellular networks are
limited by the capacity of the airwaves. That’s why carriers pay so much
money for their spectrum.
The demand for data rises and falls depending on the time of day and place.
Those rural folks sucking down massive gigabytes of data in the middle of
the night may not be causing significant problems for AT&T and Verizon, but
for a smaller carrier like T-Mobile it actually can add up. Even if those
customers don’t cause problems on the wireless side, they can cause
expenses where the bits transition from T-Mobile’s cellular network and go
back onto a wireline network to get to the Internet. T-mobile doesn’t own a
large wireline network, and in rural areas especially it has to pay a
network operator (in some cases Verizon or AT&T) for access to the
Internet. If a bunch of users are using a few hundred or a thousand
gigabytes of data, those costs can add up quickly.
That means that when John Legere freaks out over customers using terabytes
of data on the network, he’s freaking out because it’s costing him a lot
more to run those bits over cellular. Not only that, when those bits do
eventually hit the wireline network that’s also costing him a lot. As for
AT&T and Verizon, they too have to deal with the laws of physics and the
cost of spectrum. That’s why offloading to Wi-Fi has become so popular in
recent years.
