data token question

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Ryan11433 wrote:

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GabeU wrote:

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A few people buying and using data tokens on a regular basis doesn't have the same effect on the system as tens of thousands of subscribers taking advantage of a larger data plan.

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What do you mean that it does not have same effect on the system?

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The impact on the system from a few people buying and using data tokens is a drop in the bucket compared to what the impact would be from thousands, if not tens of thousands of people buying and using larger data plans.

I always use roads as an analogy.  Say a road has a capacity of 20,000 cars per hour before it starts to experience a slowdown.  If traffic is generally under or sticks to that capacity, even a few extra cars every now and then (people using data tokens) isn't going to effect it much.  But if there is all of a sudden 30,000 cars per hour (larger plans being offered) trying to go down the road, traffic would slow down considerably.  That's what would happen with the system by adding larger data plans, as it's likely that a lot of people would upgrade to them.  The larger the plans offered, the greater the impact and the slower the service would be.