Comments on: From one extreme to the other http://www.telecoms.com/16648/from-one-extreme-to-the-other telecoms.com is the leading provider of global news, comment and analysis for the telecommunications industry Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:31:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: sim http://www.telecoms.com/16648/from-one-extreme-to-the-other/comment-page-1#comment-6291 sim Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:25:12 +0000 http://www.telecoms.com/?p=16648#comment-6291 A Youtube video is the equivalent of 500,000 simultaneous SMSs? Really? Let's do the math. For the sake of the argument, let's say it takes 5 seconds for an SMS to go through (which it doesn't). 500,000 text messages at an average of 100 characters each (100 bytes = 700 bits) over 5 seconds means (500000*100*7)/5 bps = 70000000 bps = 66Mbps. 66Mbps is hardly the bitrate of a mobile Youtube video. Even one hundredth (660kbps) of that would be too much. Case closed. A Youtube video is the equivalent of 500,000 simultaneous SMSs? Really?

Let’s do the math.

For the sake of the argument, let’s say it takes 5 seconds for an SMS to go through (which it doesn’t). 500,000 text messages at an average of 100 characters each (100 bytes = 700 bits) over 5 seconds means (500000*100*7)/5 bps = 70000000 bps = 66Mbps.

66Mbps is hardly the bitrate of a mobile Youtube video. Even one hundredth (660kbps) of that would be too much.

Case closed.

]]> By: mike http://www.telecoms.com/16648/from-one-extreme-to-the-other/comment-page-1#comment-6128 mike Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:56:24 +0000 http://www.telecoms.com/?p=16648#comment-6128 errrm, aren't cellphone jammers illegal here? errrm, aren’t cellphone jammers illegal here?

]]> By: Nick Hunn http://www.telecoms.com/16648/from-one-extreme-to-the-other/comment-page-1#comment-6124 Nick Hunn Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:21:55 +0000 http://www.telecoms.com/?p=16648#comment-6124 Didn't we have a prison network called Cellnet? Didn’t we have a prison network called Cellnet?

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