Do ya really think whining about it on iNet is going to help? Most of
us in the MiS stocks group don't really give a rat's ass. Heck, I say
let's go another 2 trillion in debt and invest in infrastructure.
Fred
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>A while back I was PO'ed about the neglect and made several posts
> about how it will all affect us in one way or another. We are in deep
> **** when it comes to our roads, bridges, power grid, dams & levee
> systems, air traffic control, but who gives a ****, right? We'll deal
> with it when it after it becomes a huge crisis, right?
>
> Well, now we are rapidly running out of it for data as well.
> Surprised!?! The greatest resource that was ever delivered to the
> common man may well be on its way to over capacity and to the big
> blood-curdling crash. Yep, we can build all kinds of **** in Iraq
> that will soon get blown up but god forbid if we even thought about
> investing in ourselves. This whole ****ing country is falling apart
> at its seams but is anyone saying or doing anything about it? Of
> course not. After all why do something today when you can put it off
> until............next decade........?
>
> Seems like America has completely lost its sense of priority.
>
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> 2010: D-day for the Internet as it hits "full capacity"?
> Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:19PM EDT
> See Comments (31)
>
> Buzz up!on Yahoo!Doom-filled warnings arrive from AT&T this week. The
> company says that without substantial investment in network
> infrastructure, the Internet will essentially run out of bandwidth in
> just two short years.
>
> Blame broadband, says AT&T. Decades of dealing with the trickle of
> bandwidth consumed by voice and dialup modems left AT&T twiddling its
> thumbs. The massive rise of DSL and cable modem service in the 2000s
> has had AT&T facing a monstrous increase in the volume of data
> transmissions. And that's set to increase another 50 times between now
> and 2015. That's enough, says AT&T, to all but crash the system.
>
> In response, AT&T says it's investing $19 billion to upgrade the
> backbone of the Internet, the routers, servers, and connections where
> the bulk of traffic is processed.
>
> Of course, AT&T is using this breathlessness in part to point fingers
> beyond simple broadband use. Web video (especially high-definition
> video) is the most commonly mentioned bandwidth hog. AT&T says video
> alone will eat up 80 percent of traffic in two years vs. just 30
> percent now. One wonders how YouTube doesn't collapse under the
> pressure. Hmmm.
>
> Meanwhile, many are wondering whether this is prelude to AT&T
> announcing (or not announcing, but doing anyway) a traffic
> prioritization/shaping system like Comcast has been tinkering with...
> and which has earned it nothing but scorn. Net neutrality (which would
> forbid premium pricing for certain Internet applications and
> destinations) is a topic that continues to be hotly debated on Capitol
> Hill, and telcos are anxious to kill the idea since they'd love to be
> able to charge additional money for different kinds of web traffic. If
> the whole Internet is about to crash, well, that makes AT&T's argument
> all the more compelling, doesn't it?
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