07.02.2008 09:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Towards the End of Cheap Broadband Internet?

With the development of the Web2.0, in other words online service such as YouTube or Dailymotion, as well as VOD or online Video Rental services, the internet bandwidth literally exploded. If one adds the effect of P2P (reported to drain about a third of the worldwide bandwidth), internet users keep increasing their bandwidth consumption. However, if this could look like an unlimited resource, it starts to have a cost for ISP, especially when they have to use hardware infrastructure developed by competitors. If in France and in general in Europe, the competition between ISP allows users to have access to full broadband internet at a very low price (triple play ADSL or ADSL2+ for less than 30 Euros/month), with transfer speed only defined by the distance between your computer and the central server, in other countries such services are simply not available yet. In USA, partially due to the size of the country and also to the investment required, broadband internet remains restricted to some

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