On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:50:18 +0100, tony sayer wrote:

>> As a broadcast medium the internet is not upto it, at least with
>> todays system. If multicast ever gets out there in a meaningful
way
>> things might be different but how many connections can a single 3G
>> cell support at say 128kbps each susutained?
>
> I don't reckon its ideal but according to an Orange engineer I was
> talking to on a transmitter site, he said that you could regard it as a
> 40 megabit capacity wi-fi point and that was just that cell of which
> there're rolling out more and more as time goes by!...

So backhaul froma individual cell site appears not to be a bottle
neck but where does that cell site connect? What happens further up
the chain and how much capacity does the "broadcaster" have on their
servers and connection?

Then of course I very much doubt that a single cell can support
40Mbps/128kbps = 300+ users at a time.

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Cheers
Dave.