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Poll: Is Google Music the bandwidth breaker?

Are streaming music services like Google Music causing problems on your organization's networks? Are you restricting access to these services? Have you had to alter policies?

is in the data caps on mobile device plans. Can you imagine the "shock and awe"
some parents could get when they open their cellular data plan after adding little
Joe and Jane with the new 4G devices/phones and the minimum data plans to see
that the "youngens" have went over their caps while streaming music and YouTube?
I think this will be the first group to raise cane over excessive rates being charged
for wireless data!!

Too bad.

Music streaming is tiny compared with video streaming. In the broader world, the telecom people simply don't want to upgrade their hardware to accommodate the demand because they make too much money as things stand. They want your service to drag so they can charge you more, without actually doing anything.

In other words, the pipe is big enough, but there is a valve on it which they control to suit their own interests.

I'm addicting with Grooveshark and don't feel that it will take my bandwidth away. But what I wonder is why google jump in music market?? As I see, Google music makes no difference or has more advantage over existing providers such as Apple iTune, and Amazon cloud player.