AT&T Says Internet to Hit Full Capacity By 2010
Where, you ask, is the end of the Internet?
Well, in the time-space continuum that is virtual existence, the real question is when. And according to AT&T, without investment, the Internet's current network architecture will "reach the limits of its capacity by 2010."
The comments were made at a Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 this past week in London, where AT&T's vice president of legislative affairs Jim Cicconi warned that the systems currently in place will not be able to handle the increasing amounts of content (read: homemade movies of your cat break-dancing).
He said that at least $55 billion worth of investment was needed in new infrastructure in the next three years in the U.S. alone -- and that it would require $130 billion to improve the Internet worldwide.
Most outlandish quote:
"The surge in online content is at the center of the most dramatic changes affecting the Internet today," he said. "In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today."
Psshhhyeah right. [Source News.com]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JD @ Apr 20th 2008 11:43AM
Completely bogus, this is a ploy to gather government subsidies and there is a glut of fiber optic cable available to these carriers and technology is increasing the amount of data that can be sent over each strand regularly. Total lie and I hope enough experts stand against this trash.
howard hughes @ Apr 20th 2008 4:11PM
apparently they're smoking some good shit out there at at&t.
Ian @ Apr 20th 2008 9:40PM
wow 20 homes can produce more internet traffic then there is right now? yea right, if thats true then those 20 households will be downloading one hell of a lot of porn
David Peavy @ Apr 21st 2008 12:08AM
AT&T is just a bit "full" of itself...don't you think? Who's to say how big, how far the Internet reaches....a phone company in search of a way to make even more money from us? Totally Bogus!
kal326 @ Apr 21st 2008 9:58AM
I don't see this happening with 6meg down and 768k DSL caps by AT&T. So unless AT&T gets its fiber rollout completely done by then and makes bandwidth caps 20x higher then they currently are I see honest politicians happening first.
3r1c8y @ Apr 26th 2008 10:11PM
i think they're right, i mean the amount of internet traffic is growing exponentially. and we're all uploading bigger and bigger stuff and downloading huge files.