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by Am4TIfIsER0ppos 973 days ago
While we're on the topic of nonsense numbers Wolfram Alpha estimates that to be 14 megabits per person
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Or it could be gigabits available to any person. Since it would be 14 megabits per person per second right, assuming 100% utilisation?
I merely told it to divide 73 terabits by the population of New Zealand and to express that in megabits. So yeah no consideration of usage patterns: "nonsense numbers" just like the supposed 46G wifi this story is about.
I do agree that all these numbers are pretty meaningless . Somehow truth in advertising laws don't apply to many of these claims. Only seen the Australian regulator really crack down on it.