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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/2/21 13:19, Mike Hammett wrote:<br>
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10pt; color: #000000">While I don't have any stats to back it up
myself, one of my fixed wireless colleagues reported moving
nearly a whole neighborhood from 25 meg fixed wireless to 200 -
500 meg fiber. The 95th% usage changed approximately 10%.<br>
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It's kind of like self-generating electricity with solar panels and
a battery... most folk don't understand how electricity works, and
simply expect things to happen when switches are flicked. So a
first-time solar/battery DIY'er may assume all inverters are made
the same, and goes ahead to buy a 1kW system, assuming that he/she
is the most conservative energy user.<br>
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They, then, spend the next 6 months not understanding why it goes
dark each time they use the hair dryer. So fine, they get a 2kW
inverter, and now the hair dryer is fine, but it goes dark when they
also try to make a cup of coffee. So fine, they get a 3kW inverter,
but it takes 6hrs to charge the battery, which means it never gets
charged on a typical 5-hour sun-hour day.<br>
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After finally seeking some expertise, they ditch their 3kW inverter
and splurge a 6kW system.<br>
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They can now make some coffee, dry their hair and charge the battery
without things going dark. They usually probably live in the 0.7kW -
3kW range in the normal course of their day, but they have the
option to run free without constraint when required.<br>
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Closer to home, when we launched a 25Mbps product back in 2015 for
under US$200/month in Johannesburg for commercial businesses, fibre
and CPE included, we saw a corresponding increase in cloud service
purchases, removal of on-premise hardware (especially bandwidth and
content management systems), and the emergence of social media
businesses that relied on quick uploading of content. Within 6
months, 85% of those companies had upgraded to our 100Mbps service,
which cost US$600/month.<br>
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Most of those companies either still have their 100Mbps service
today, or if they upgraded, perhaps only 25% took anything above
500Mbps.<br>
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It's about untying people's hands. They won't always be swinging
their arms about their person 24/7, but they will have the room and
freedom to do so, when they need to.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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