Video games get blamed for a lot of things.
Recently, NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow suggested that "gamers predominantly" were to blame for the congestion across the National Broadband Network. He later clarified that he wasn't blaming gamers for congestion, but reiterated that they are "heavy users".
Data provided by price comparison website WhistleOut paints a different picture. An average Internet user watching any of the popular tv/movie stream services will be using vastly more bandwidth than one playing any of the top online games.
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