Bandwidth 2

Good article: "Why Google will falter in 2006, 8 predictions for tech, including why Yahoo's expansion of search will hurt Google" by David Kirkpatrick in FORTUNE.

 One point provides further info on my previous post:

"But telcos may have some advantages over the other players. Wolfgang Ziebart, CEO of Infineon (Research), recently told me that the German chipmaker will ramp up production of its so-called VDSL2 chip in early 2006. This chip can send data at the Holy Grail rate of 100 megabits per second over ordinary copper phone wire for distances of more than 600 feet.

"That may not seem very far, but it represents a much greater capacity to transmit data than has previously been available on copper wires. This will enable phone companies to avoid stringing expensive optical fiber all the way to consumers' home computers. Instead, telcos can install optical fiber cables to hubs and then use traditional pre-existing copper phone lines to connect them to nearby households. Texas Instruments (Research) and other chipmakers are working on similar technology."

Now if only we could also upload that fast.

Bottom line: More bandwidth is coming.