Clearly that 40% of providers limit the bandwidth of heavy users

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun news report, it seems that about 40% of providers have restricted the bandwidth of heavy users such as video sharing service to secure communication speed.

Also, as some providers are considering introducing bandwidth limitation, it seems that this trend will spread further in the future.

Details are as below.
40% of connected companies, "Traffic congestion" measures to limit traffic: Economic news: Money · Economy: YOMIURI ONLINE (Yomiuri Shimbun)

According to this article, about 40% of providers limit the bandwidth of heavy users in order to alleviate "network congestion" which traffic increases due to heavy data communication by heavy users and the communication speed of the entire network slows down It seems that it became clear that it was.

This is due to the fact that the use of video sharing service, etc. increased the amount of traffic by users who exchange a large amount of data for a long time, the maintenance of lines etc has not kept up, borrowing the line 106 companies out of the 276 companies that responded to the survey, including providers that do business, are restricting the bandwidth. In addition, 29 companies are considering introducing bandwidth limitation mainly for ensuring fairness among users.

Although it seems that complaints such as "the communication speed got slowed" from heavy users come due to the execution of the band limitation, there were effects such as complaints decreased from general users and the whole communication speed improved Thing. Apparently there is a high possibility that there will be more providers that will restrict the bandwidth of heavy users.

As video sharing services will be spreading in the future in the future, we talked about beforeServices that guarantee the bandwidth with 200 yen per monthWill it come out that providers offering?

Even so, when I look at the link below, it seems doubtful whether there really is an unregulated provider ....

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