Internet access?

Apple iPhone - Internet Acess?

Someone told me that using a smart phone for internet access uses a lot of bandwidth on a public system and bogs it down if enough people do it at the same time. Anyone know if this is true? Same thing for Skype.

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Any device. Too much demand on an insufficient infrastructure will definitely bog it down. Not only mobile phones.

Maybe, the reason behind what that someone who told you said is smart phones make it easier for people to access internet anytime, anywhere. No need for a computer. Therefore, more traffic.

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What they are referring to, putting it back into context is, wireless access to the internet can be overloaded, since there is a limited amount of infrastructure for wireless. The internet is considered to be public, but the wireless access is built by private dollars, once they are granted (in the US) license by the FCC to those frequencies.

I can't tell which one of the liars is telling the truth, since different people are saying that the iPhone uses more bandwidth, and others are starting to say it is Android or the Blackberry.

Remember that the internet was originally built for research, by educational institutions and the military-industrial complex, with no public access. It was intended to speed the exchange of knowledge and research, not gaming, texting and social networking. I know it seems hard to imagine life without the internet or cell phones, but they are recent technology.

It is kind of like the land give aways to build the railroads, only they did not give away the frequencies, they only granted use or licenses. They are more like TV and radio station licenses. Only the government has forgotten that they can tell the providers, that if they want keep the licenses, that they have to play by the governments rules. All they have to say is, "You will charge everyone the same for usage and there no one gets preferential treatment." The license is granted for the greater good of the general public equally.

Them's the rules, play by them, or loose your license. We're starting to learn that you cannot have the regulators in bed with the industry they are supposed to control, or turn a blind eye on them. Just look at the Gulf.

Stepping off my soap box.

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I think , we can reduce of using bandwith with using data compression. For example in Blackberry or Opera Mini, the compress data, so reducing of using bandwith resource.

I dont know about iPhone. Normally iPhone using uncompression data, so it depends on the site we browse.