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only because their network wasn't ready for the traffic?


So don't sell unlimited data plans if your networks can't handle a modest increase in data usage?


Real-time video transmission is perhaps the bulkiest of Internet traffic. Do you have data showing the traffic increase was "modest"?


Yes


So what you're saying is that your point is invalid.


Good one


That was the excuse. Their network, absent any major upgrades, was carrying real time video from all sorts of sources within a year. This was a naked money grab to force users into a metered data plan.


At the time you could use third party video calling apps so it wasn't about video traffic. I used Yahoo Chat at the time.




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