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| Contradictions I call BS on this. Pure BS.
How does this statement by AT&T in the article: "In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today."
Square with this statement two paragraphs later: “the "unprecedented new wave of broadband traffic" would increase fifty-fold by 2015”
Let’s assume he’s just talking U.S. With about 60 million homes connected to the broadband internet in the U.S., his first statement implies that in 2011, the size of Internet traffic will increase by a factor of 3 Million! If he’s talking the world and not the U.S., this factor is much higher. Yet he says later that we’ll have a 50 fold increase in 8 years.
Pure Bunk |
4 edits | said by Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T :
"In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today."
Statements like this are really a good thing. It shows how some companies get blinded by the $ signs dancing in their heads, which leads them into stupidity like the above quote. In turn it brings their true business model to light which seems to be, just bend over and relax it will only hurt for a little bit, for what it is. On the up side apparently from a statement like that one could conclude that at some point in the next twenty four months or so there are going to be twenty people in AT&T territory that are going to have 100,000 to 1,000,000MB connections that I am sure they will enjoy immensely until they crash the internet.
Edited change was: I was replying to what Zappas Ghost had pointed out, but I felt it was better to point out who actually said it.
Second edit: Added thoughts
Lets assume these "In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today." Do nothing but download 50GB Blu-Ray movies 24 hours a day 7 days a week for a month. They can only watch 12 movies a day. Thats 50GB x 12 movies a day x 30 days x 20 people = 360,000GB a month. Now I have heard of people downloading 500 or 600GB in a month from time to time, but everyone out of a want for that much content slacks off after the new of that content subsides. Don't get me wrong I know the demand on the internet is growing at a incredible rate, but this guy really stepped in it with his statement. The U.S. and global Internet is measured in petabytes or exabytes not gigabytes. I do believe the typical household will use more date in 3 years than they are using today, but nowhere near 18,000GB. Nor 20 typical households use as much as the whole U.S. or global internet of today which ever he was referring to in such a ludicrous statement. |
