approveAT&t re: ATT suggests heavy data users overloading cell sites, must stop or pay?

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Andrew C Burnette <acb () acb net>
> Date: December 12, 2009 8:52:59 AM EST
> To: dave () farber net, dpreed () reed com
> Subject: Re: [IP] ATT suggests heavy data users overloading cell  
> sites, must stop or pay?

> Dave,
>
> for IP if you wish.
>
> I believe AT&T's own studies show approximately 40% of usage is  
> "from the home" of the user, and thus, perhaps better handoff to  
> wifi (for smartphones so equipped) and mass deployment of femtocells.
>
> On the technical side of things, there's not a lot available to  
> either the app developer (I don't claim to know the internals of the  
> available SDK's either) in application profiling, network  
> performance, or how to optimize applications across a varied network  
> such as any mobile network might be. I do know that adjustments made  
> to any platform (i.e. network stack or application protocol  
> implementation) can have significant impact upon overall  
> efficiencies within the network.
>
> I might suggest we're at the early stages of being able to give the  
> general application developer (any) good feedback on how to maximize  
> efficiencies in the network. This might be an area for the carriers  
> (or Apple/Google/Symbian et al) to facilitate with performance  
> profiling capabilities both in the local and macro sense of the  
> information which could be useful for all parties involved.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy Burnette
>
> David Farber wrote:
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > *From: *"David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com <mailto:dpreed () reed com>>
> > *Date: *December 11, 2009 10:42:46 PM EST
> > *To: *David Farber <dave () farber net <mailto:dave () farber net>>
> > *Subject: **ATT suggests heavy data users overloading cell sites,  
> > must stop or pay?*
> > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/12/att-says-it-hopes-to-start-charging-smartphone-customers-for-heavy-data-usage.html
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