Also, BT customers, Don’t think you are safe, BT use illegal software to watch what you are doing already.

According to Dr. Odlyzko, the idea of a tsunami of internet traffic isn’t a new idea. It’s one that has been with us, like an urban legend that won’t die, for some time. He sees the problem isn’t with the traffic on the net, that the growth rate has actually slowed down and while the usage b/w is expanding the growth of the net is slowing down. That the main issue isn’t expansion abilities of the communications companies, nor the increasing of the backbone size but rather the last mile connections. Those biggest companies that connect at the last mile are were the problems are. The cost to straighten out the limited amount of traffic over old copper wires and nodes from cable companies is the biggest factor and those corporations are not wanting to invest to cure this. They want to be paid to do it.

So the red herring is a passable sounding reason to delay until either the customer finances any changes or the government comes along to fill the swill trough with more money. Korea is a far smaller country than the US yet it handles day to day as much internet traffic as the US. Japan, where infrastructure is cheaper to install fiber to the apartment complex is doing just fine. Both of these countries are well known for both their internet usage as well as their high speeds available at cheap prices. Something the US lacks from no competition in the market to the monopolies.