23:20 
Fri, 20th June 2008
AT&T Exec Resurrects Claim of Internet Armageddon in 2010
According to Jim Cicconi, AT&T’s VP of legislative affairs, the internet module accomplish flooded power by 2010 without boost investment.
I know, I know. I was thinking on using the internet in 2010 too.
Rest assured, Cicconi’s doomsday prevision is not exclusive old, but alcoholic with hyperbole. While speech at the borough eForum on Web 2.0 in London, the chief swollen the discussion by fingering HD recording as a probable catalyst.
"Eight hours of recording is unexploded onto YouTube every minute," Cicconi told the crowd. "Everything module embellish HD rattling soon, and HD is 7 to 10 nowadays more bandwidth-hungry than exemplary recording today. Video module be 80 proportionality of every reciprocation by 2010, up from 30 proportionality today," he added.
It’s no info that broadband onset is expanding worldwide. Furthermore, online conveying for recording has seen a scarred increase. But modify if Cicconi’s figures concerning recording are correct, it’s implausible that HD recording module endeavor a persona in transfer the scheme to a crawl.
Not exclusive is the expense of flooded HD conveying a deterrent for a aggregation of noesis owners today, but individual obligation for HD noesis looks to be hit-or-miss depending on the outlet.
A such more probable prediction? With continued advancements in accumulation compression, and work-arounds for ‘last mile’ bottlenecks, internet power in 2010 module be — for demand of a meliorate word — ‘fine.’
[Via ZDNet News]
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