The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Thanks to us becoming enamored with peer-to-peer services, streaming high-def video and Web-enabled devices like digital cameras, USA Today reports that by 2010 the average household will be
using 1.1 terabytes (roughly equal to 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica) of bandwidth a month.
The newspaper also pointed to the Internet Innovation Alliance, a coalition of business and non-profit organizations focused on developing a U.S. broadband strategy, as saying 20 homes will generate more traffic than the entire Internet in 1995.
These mind-boggling stats haven’t gone unnoticed by carriers, some of which are said to be considering Internet service plans that charge by the megabyte.
