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Originally Posted by Lord Raiden View Post
tso: Actually, no. Given that all the other carriers would have customers locked into contracts, they'd only be able to migrate over as their contracts ended. So the influx of users would be manageable, and as capacity was reached in each area, additions could be made to the system to easily keep up with demand. On top of that, most cellular locations have more than sufficient bandwidth. The idea being that they've got room for lots of growth should it occur.
and what would the next tiers say?

thats the "unknown" in all this, the peering agreements and tiers of networking.

thats why all kinds of companies wants to keep the traffic, be it wired or wireless, on their own network. if they are lucky, they have a balanced peering agreement where its agreed that each side will accept equal amounts of traffic from the other side. if they are unlucky they have to pay for traffic crossing the border in some direction.

in either case, if there is a spike of traffic on their end, thanks to flat rate customers wanting to max their use of what they pay for, it can play havoc with the peering agreement...

as for leftover capacity, no way, no how. all companies in this kind of game guesstimate that no customer will make use of their max capacity 24/7. basically the companies will oversell their capacity as much as they can get away with.