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T-Mobile has confirmed that the company is boosting the "deprioritization" threshold for the company"s "unlimited" data plans to 50 GB per month. The new 50 GB limit is a notable bump up from the company"s previous cap of 32 GB -- which the company has been quick to highlight was already 10 GB or so higher than most of its competitors. When users in congested areas hit this 50 GB threshold, their LTE connections are deprioritized to last generation speeds for the remainder of their billing cycle.
In a blog post by T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray announcing the move, T-Mobile pats itself on the back for being more generous than other big wireless carriers, who have a threshold of 22 GB (AT&T, Verizon) or 23 GB (Sprint).
"Verizon and AT&T sit at a meager 22GB, meaning Un-carrier customers can use more than 2x the data before prioritization kicks in," the company proclaims. "Now, 50GB of data usage means a T-Mobile customer is basically the top 1% of data users, and to put it in context, you could stream a full 2 hours of Netflix every single day -- that s 30 SD movies -- and never even reach that point!"
Ray noted that the changes will take effect Wednesday of this week (aka today). In his post, Ray insists that what carriers are doing with unlimited data plans should be called "deprioritization," not "throttling."
"Often confused for a throttle or cap, prioritization is different," the CTO said. "It doesn t cap how much you can use, and someone would only notice it when TWO things happen: the customer has already consumed a ton of data in the month (50GB) AND they are in an area of the network is that currently experiencing congestion."
"When T-Mobile customers who use the most data hit these prioritization points during the month, they get in line behind other customers who have used less data and may experience reduced speeds," the CTO explains. "But this impacts them only very rarely, like when there is a big line, and it resets every month."
■The popular PC cleanup tool, CCleaner, has been hacked. Its users have been advised to update their software immediately, after researchers discovered criminal hackers had installed a backdoor in certain versions of the tool. Anyone who downloaded or updated the software between mid-August to mid-September also downloaded malware without realizing it. "We confirmed that this malicious version of CCleaner was being hosted directly on CCleaner "s download server as recently as September 11, 2017, ...
Users in our security forum note that Piriform, the creator of the popular software CCleaner, has been hacked. Only recently acquired by Avast, the hack was so severe it compromised some installer packages of the CCCleaner software, infecting it with malware that not only lifted some user data, but installed a payload that exposed millions of the software"s users to attack.
Merger talks between Sprint and T-Mobile have heated back up after the two sides spent a few months flirting with other merger opportunities. CNBC cites several anonymous sources at the companies that state the two carriers are engaged in frequent talks about a stock-for-stock merger in which T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom would emerge as the majority owner. The hope is to keep the T-Mobile brand and current winning streak intact, but with Masayoshi Son having a more active role in the company that certainly is no guarantee.
While things have improved at Sprint, Son has struggled to create a real brand identity for Sprint that truly resonates with consumers.
"People close to the situation stress that negotiators are still weeks away from finalizing a deal and believe the chances of reaching an agreement are not assured," states the report. "The two sides have not yet set an exchange ratio for a deal, but are currently engaged in talks to hammer out a term sheet."
Talks between Sprint and T-Mobile had cooled slightly after Sprint, Comcast and Charter negotiated a two month exclusive negotiations window. The three companies talked briefly about a possible minority investment or even joint acquisition of Sprint, but nothing came from the talks.
"While T-Mobile CEO John Legere is expected to lead any combination that results from a merger, Son has made it clear he wants a say in how the company is run," states the report. "That desire adds another layer of complexity to an already difficult transaction."
It should be curious to see Legere try and hype the merger with a company he"s been ridiculing for years. And while the companies" will surely try to spin such a deal as a big win for consumers, the elimination of one of four major competitors will result in a reduction in overall competition -- a pinch consumers are certain to feel over time as competition between the remaining three carriers shifts more toward the theatrical. read comment(s)
T-Mobile will be bumping the throttling threshold for the company"s "unlimited" data plans from 32 GB per month -- to 50 GB per month. The news was first revealed courtesy of an internal document obtained by Android Central. T-Mobile support seemed to confirm the move on Twitter before the Tweet was deleted, and T-Mobile has yet to formally confirm the change. If true, moving forward, heavier users in more congested areas may find their speeds reduced for the remainder of their billing cycles once they exceed 50 GB of data per month. T-Mobile has spent the last few weeks mocking Verizon"s announcement it would be heavily throttling video and banning all 4K streaming from the Verizon Wireless network.
So not only has Charter"s acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House been relatively unpleasant and expensive for consumers, the company has taken heat for failing to meet broadband deployment conditions imposed on the deal by New York State. Earlier this year, Charter was fined $13 million by the New York State Department of Public Service for failing to meet broadband build out requirements imposed as part of its recent mega-merger.
In a statement this week by the New York Public Service Commission (pdf), the PSC finally formalized the penalty, stating it"s the "largest cable company financial settlement of its kind in state history and possibly the largest in the nation s."
Given the apathy of most regulators and state governments complete disinterest in holding large, wealthy ISPs accountable for failed promises or fraud that"s not particularly surprising. While many of these same regulators rushed to quickly approve the deal in exchange for campaign contributions, you"d be hard pressed to find many politicians caring much about how the deal has resulted in even worse service and higher prices than ever.
In New York, Charter was required to do a number of things it would have likely done anyway, including:
• Deploy broadband speed upgrades to 100 mbps statewide by the end of 2018 and 300 mbps by the end of 2019 • Build out Charter s network to pass an additional 145,000 unserved or under-served homes and businesses within four years of the closing of the transaction.
The NY PSC says that as of May 18, 2017, Charter had only extended its network to pass 15,164 of the 36,250 premises it was required to pass in the first year. As a penalty, NY state says Charter agreed to pay $1 million in grants for equipment to provide computer and internet access to low-income users, and to set aside $12 million as a security to meet its network expansion commitment going forward.
In its approval of the merger, the Commission required Charter to undertake several types of investments and other activities, said Commission Chair John B. Rhodes. While Charter is delivering on many of them, it failed to expand the reach of its network to un-served and under-served customers at the pace it committed. We are taking these additional steps to ensure full and complete compliance. read comment(s)
Verizon is breaking ranks with AT&T and Comcast, and is supporting Google-pushed "one touch make ready" utility pole attachment proposals that would make it quicker and easier to deploy fiber broadband services. Both AT&T and Comcast have sued Louisville and Nashville for passing such rules, which allow a licensed and insured third-party contractor to move other ISP pole gear, dramatically speeding up the time it takes to deploy fiber upgrades. Both ISPs claim they"re simply concerned about damage and outages, though their anti-competitive incentive for blocking the reform is also blatantly obvious.
But in a new blog post and a filing with the FCC (pdf), Verizon says it supports the one touch proposal because it will speed up deployment of fiber necessary to fuel next-gen wireless services.
Under most current pole attachment models, each individual ISP has to sign off on having their gear moved, then get their own technicians or subcontractors out to prepare the pole for fiber attachment by competitors.
That can take many months if multiple ISPs are involved, and longer still if those ISPs aren"t fond of the threat of added competition, as is the case with Google Fiber. Given they often own many city poles, intentional pole attachment bureaucracy is just one of several ways ISPs make life difficult for new market entrants.
In its post, Verizon says it"s in a "unique position to weigh in on how these issues affect deployment" as "one of the few broadband providers with experience both as a pole owner and as a wireline and wireless attacher to other people s poles." And in its filing, first spotted by Fierce Wireless, the company stated it needs the ability "to access poles quickly and efficiently, both to hang small cells and to string fiber that will provide the necessary backhaul."
"Instead of the current ungainly process, there would be one truck roll to make all of the adjustments to existing attachments and to add the new attachment," Verizon said. "Just one disruption to traffic instead of multiple trucks." And to address concerns about outages and network safety, Verizon suggests "the FCC could limit participation to qualified, licensed contractors who are approved by pole-owners, agree to abide by all applicable safety standards, and who, along with the new attacher, will indemnify pole owners and existing attachers if things go wrong."
Verizon"s decision to buck AT&T and Comcast comes, in part, because of the fact the company has shifted its focus to wireless, and isn"t seeing much pressure from outfits like Google Fiber in any of its Northeast territories where it does still offer fixed-line services. read comment(s)
There are many standards of 802.11, such as 802.11g, 802.11n and the emerging 802.11ad that define standards for sending data over wireless communications over various frequencies such as 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 60 GHz. 802.11e is not specific to a frequency, but rather provides a framework to prioritize network traffic.
For some types of network traffic, the order in which it is sent and received is not critical. By way of example, for a web page, it is less important whether the image or the text arrives first as they both will populate the web page. However, for other types of information, the order can be critical, such as when video streaming, or VoIP (Voice over internet protocol), as otherwise the data will be jumbled, resulting in an incoherent phone call, or a video that keeps stuttering as it waits for the next set of frames to arrive.
802.11e (also termed 802.11e-2005) is an amendment that provides a set of Quality of Service (QoS) enhancements for delay sensitive applications including multimedia streaming and VoIP. This amendment was subsequently incorporated into the IEEE 802.11-2007 standard.
802.11 originally used the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) and Point Coordination Function (PCF). DCF was designed to prevent data collisions, when two devices are transmitting their data simultaneously. In order to avoid this, they wait until the wireless medium is quiet before they are transmitting, and also an acknowledgement of the data transmission occurs. However, DCF does not incorporate QoS into its protocol.
802.11e in its standard defines a Hybrid Coordination Function (HCF) which is designed to improve on and replace both DCF and PCF. DCF gets extended with EDCA (Enhanced Distribution Coordinate Access) which has parameters for four access categories which indicate the class of data:
By specifying the class of data, the network can be tuned to handle a variety of different types of data and handle a higher traffic load.
With the original DCF each client has to wait after it transmits data for the wireless medium to be idle. With EDCA, the client will wait to transmit data like with DCF, but it also waits an additional period to transmit known as the AIFS (Arbitration Inter-Frame Space), where the category of data defines the amount of additional time to wait.
High priority data, such as voice data, is prioritized by assigning a low CWmin, and low CWmax. Also, the limits are set such that the low priority data also gains access to the network, but not ahead of the high priority transmissions.
802.11e provides a standard in order to prioritize data for delay sensitive applications, so the data is received for multimedia and applications. Feel free to discuss issues and challenges with prioritization of data in our comment section below.
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