Telekom’s Three Percent

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Word problem. Put your pencils down.

Three percent of customers—the power users—will be affected by the “throttle”.The average customer currently “uses” 15–20 GB a month.By 2016, internet traffic will quadruple.

I drew this on the back of my Telekom bill.

By the time the change is forced on everyone, that means roughly every single average customer will be affected.

(If you use this back-of-the-envelope calculation. But Telekom is using back-of-the-envelope arguments too.)