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Old 05-26-2011, 08:56 AM   #706
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang View Post
As an aside, Shaw mentions that they are freeing up network capacity by converting everyone to digital. I'm not familiar with the technicalities, but I can assume that analogue signals are inefficient and take up more than their fair share of the capacity.
Analog is a huge bandwidth hog. Each signal is a carrier, you can embed multiple digital data signals on a single carrier.
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