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Good thing it's only the `Web'

Not to mention any other IP service that doesn't have a www in front of it

I don't see how there will ever be a 'bandwidth shortage' on the internet.

When consumers and businesses create a demand for bandwidth, telecom providers are more than willing to provide internet service at a given price. The more competition there is in a given market the lower the cost will be to the end-user.

Content providers purchase bandwidth just like everyone else, the more bandwidth they purchase, the more capacity they have to allocate for customer use.

The increased demand for bandwidth combined with technological advancement has led to a decrease in the cost of bandwidth on the wholesale market.

DSL and Cable providers are raping and pillaging with caps because they don't want customers to make use of the connections they have paid a fair market price for. However as the capacity of consumer connections increase, the cost of the bandwidth itself does not decrease proportionally. Broadband providers still have to make the price-tag appealing, thus caps are sometimes instituted. In reality the cost of the bandwidth *usually* represents an extremely small percentage of monies paid to the telco.

omg... the sky is falling! THE SKY IS FALLING! When will articles like this ever stop?
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Respectfully, X_Digit