This sounds extremely cursed but I still expect the actual impact is ridiculously minimal.
For most (>75%) of households it will be a under two dozen megabytes. For urban dwellers who see a lot more devices pass them by, I'd back-of-napkin estimate 99.9% will see under 100MB.
It's a feel-bad situation, but this IS an example of the press riding what ought to be a non-issue. This really isn't much of a problem.
Alas Amazon is also not doing themselves any favors. There doesn't seem to be any visibility afforded to those whose networks they are using. There's no charts, no bandwidth used, nothing. Amazon seems content to just take. I really think Amazon's ask here is very small, especially/at least for the first couple years, and I'm even ok with them just taking- net bandwidth will look like a firmware update or two- but there should at least be some respect, some visibility into what is happening, somewhere.
Without being able to see anything, no one is fit to judge whether it's a problem or not. By just taking, by not making a view, Amazon is turning a non-issue into a real issue.
For most (>75%) of households it will be a under two dozen megabytes. For urban dwellers who see a lot more devices pass them by, I'd back-of-napkin estimate 99.9% will see under 100MB.
It's a feel-bad situation, but this IS an example of the press riding what ought to be a non-issue. This really isn't much of a problem.
Alas Amazon is also not doing themselves any favors. There doesn't seem to be any visibility afforded to those whose networks they are using. There's no charts, no bandwidth used, nothing. Amazon seems content to just take. I really think Amazon's ask here is very small, especially/at least for the first couple years, and I'm even ok with them just taking- net bandwidth will look like a firmware update or two- but there should at least be some respect, some visibility into what is happening, somewhere.
Without being able to see anything, no one is fit to judge whether it's a problem or not. By just taking, by not making a view, Amazon is turning a non-issue into a real issue.