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- noun A
subscription for more than is available
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Examples
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Vice President, Policy Development, noted in an interview with Bloomberg that the oversubscription is a sign that $18.5 billion is not adequate to provide the financing support necessary.
NEI Nuclear Notes 2008
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Investors and analysts say they have found the oversubscription levels unreliable on some IPOs, particularly ones from Asia, and are having a harder time determining how much interest really exists for deals that are said to be in high demand.
New Stocks Face More Skepticism Lynn Cowan 2011
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An 8-channel bonded DOCSIS plant with 20: 1 oversubscription, 125 HH per node, and 50% take rate gives average capacity of 93 Mb/s per user – on par with GPON with a 32-customer split.
Verizon: Cablevision’s 101 Mbps Broadband a “Parlor Trick” 2009
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That is five to six orders of magnitude away from having the bandwidth for 160mbps per subscriber without oversubscription.
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Everyone shares, and everyone has oversubscription ratios somewhere.
Verizon: Cablevision’s 101 Mbps Broadband a “Parlor Trick” 2009
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Because of the heavy oversubscription, 50% of the IPO went to retail investors, up from 10% originally.
Prada, Retailers Seek Billions from Hong Kong Prudence Ho 2011
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This must be so in order to compensate for oversubscription factors that are required to deliver internet access services consumers can actually afford.
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If a high bandwidth user did all his transfers during off-peak hours he could easily exceed some arbitrary cap and yet still have no impact on peak network utilization — the only thing that matters for oversubscription.
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And the MSO will have a number of tools to increase the capacity – higher degree bonding, node splits, adjustment of oversubscription ratios, load balancing across colocated nodes, some of which require no capex.
Verizon: Cablevision’s 101 Mbps Broadband a “Parlor Trick” 2009
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According to a banker familiar with the matter, the oversubscription rate for foreign investors was three to four times.
Dai-ichi IPO Valued at $11.2 Billion Atsuko Fukase 2010
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