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		comex on March 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook introduces 15-second video ads that auto-... Off topic, but this idea that bandwidth has to be carefully thought about and rationed, and resulting avoidance of innovation that uses bandwidth - not that ads are that innovative, but there are many similar situations - is why unlimited bandwidth really has significant benefits, even if the argument that metered bandwidth encourages providers to increase capacity is probably sound.

ahupp on March 13, 2014 [–]

There are lots of places in the world where bandwidth is rationed for very real reasons, e.g due to oversubscribed cell towers.

polarix on March 13, 2014 | [–]

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