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nicholasjay writes:
In November Verizon Wireless is going to start charging its customers with the grandfathered 'unlimited data' plans an extra $20 for the data. This is obviously an attempt to get people off of the old unlimited data plans. I'm hoping they won't go through with this plan, but right now I'm weighing all my options.
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nicholasjay writes:
Netflix is swallowing America's bandwidth and it probably won't be long before it comes for the rest of the world. That's one of the headlines from Sandvine's Fall 2010 Global Internet Phenomena Report (http://www.sandvine.com/news/global_broadband_trends.asp#Download) , an exhaustive look at what people around the world are doing with their Internet lines. According to Sandvine, Netflix accounts for 20 percent of downstream Internet traffic during peak home Internet usage hours in North America. That's an amazing share — it beats that of YouTube, iTunes, Hulu, and, perhaps most tellingly, the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol BitTorrent.
