10% of users suck 80% of traffic (P2P is not to blame)

The main argument of telecoms, which want to cancel the principle of network neutrality , distribute traffic from different sites by priority, as well as introduce special types of tariffing, etc. - Uneven traffic consumption by different users. Telecoms consider it unfair that users pay the same price for unlimited access to the Network, while their actual consumption differs hundreds and thousands of times.

Perhaps this is the only reasonable argument of telecoms. which is really confirmed by real data.

The technical director of the American company Arbor Networks, which develops software for managing traffic on the networks of Internet providers, revealed secret statistics . It turns out that only 10% of users consume 80% of all traffic in the networks of Internet providers, and the most active part of 0.5% of users consumes 40% of all traffic! At the same time, a huge part of passive consumers consume in total less than 10% of all traffic.

From these figures we can draw different conclusions. Telecoms argue that it is necessary to limit consumption and introduce new types of tariffing. And someone can answer them that they just need to expand the channels, because the “most active” 0.5% is what normal users need to be on. It is necessary to expand the channels until the most active part of users consumption ceases to grow (although, is it possible in principle?).
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Interestingly, unlike in previous years, P2P ceases to be the main traffic generator. Now, 50% comes from streaming video (YouTube, etc.), and up to 70% at peak hours, while P2P accounts for only 20%. At such times, even the trunk providers, giants like Comcast are starting to slow down. And now they can no longer perform simple shaping, as before on P2P protocols.