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Chokepoint No. 5: Application servers
Chokepoint No. 5: Application servers
Many of the tens of thousands of applications for smartphones connect to the public Internet through their own servers. So don't always blame the wireless carriers for bad service. Slow loading corporate e-mail or sports scores can be the fault of an app maker's own bandwidth constraint.

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