On 6/2/21 13:19, Mike Hammett wrote:
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%.
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. 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. After finally seeking some expertise, they ditch their 3kW inverter and splurge a 6kW system. 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. 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. Most of those companies either still have their 100Mbps service today, or if they upgraded, perhaps only 25% took anything above 500Mbps. 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. Mark.