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AT&T Claims Internet to Reach Capacity in 2010
An anonymous reader writes "CNET News has a piece in which AT&T claims that the Internet's bandwidth will be saturated by video-on-demand and such by 2010. Says the AT&T VP: 'In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today.' Similarly: 'He claimed that the "unprecedented new wave of broadband traffic" would increase 50-fold by 2015 and that AT&T is investing $19 billion to maintain its network and upgrade its backbone network.'"
Oh noes! The internet is going to dry up! Better start hording internet now, so that it can be used when it runs dry!
Since our end ISP's are throttling us now, i don't see things 'expanding' for most of us.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
AT&T says the tubes of the intarwebs will be clogged with lolcats by 2010....
It seems that they 'accidentally' ran it to my house instead... ;)
Oh no the massive profits the telecom industry has enjoyed with the explosion of the internet might at some point cause them to have to sink money into infrastructure? The horror!
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
Oh my God! This is the best news I've heard in a long time! AT&T's top lawyer has just promised us 20 TBps residential internet in 3 years.
I can hardly wait! Imagine how many BluRay porn discs we can download every second!
I love you AT&T!
Invest in feedstocks.
Neutrons, Protons, Electrons....that sort of shit. Also whatever radio waves are made out of. Buy a big bunch of that stuff too.
Word in the smart circles is that all of that shit is made out of string anyway, so that's where the real smart money is.
Seriously, I've been hearing this as long as I've been on the 'net (early 1990s). It's been going around since Vint Cerf first hooked two computers together.