How will Growing Bandwidth Consumption Change Internet Use?

I was under the general assumption that part of the service fee we all pay goes toward the eventual and necessary improvements of the system as a whole so its not really an issue unless you have a completely inept or greedy service provider which at some point compition itself will still eventualy correct that short comming as well.

I think it's like Parkinson's Law that work expands to fill the time available.
Internet usage will expand to fill the available bandwidth.
Given enough bandwidth we'll soon be sending HD vido in stereo where we used to sed a 680kb photo.

The providers tout for more business to make more money, more customers slows down the service so the provider upgrades, and then perceive that they have 'excess' capacity so they have another sales drive... and so on.
Del

In U.S. telecommunication companies and other ISP providers main priorities are geared towards maximizing profit instead of providing good public services. Rather than limiting available bandwidths or resorting to penalize users, companies can implement several technical methodologies currently available to resolve the Artificial networking / communication issues. Companies can implement network improvements both in software and hardware to speed up and increase capacities which are now used in some other countries. They just don't want to invest more Network improvements using state of the art methodologies. Methodologies like 4G, although available as advertised, US companies are still incapable of delivering due since they have to replace the software /hardware backbones of their system! Again in order to maximize company profit margins!

Worst or best fix for the day and future needs would actually come to the point of dedicated service connections. If you are going to use the network for video processing, then dedicate service strictly for this process. Another total separate structure which is on its own line across the country. Same should be for an ISP, limited on what will be optimum for information bundles and packets, and last of all, dedicated gaming trunk. Yes, it is segregation of applications. For now we all suffer at our own hands and demands of the usage and the availability of services.

Not every home can afford a T1 or fiber optic node at the door. It would be a tier system at best for services. And for now we all share the same structure for communications and services being rendered at our request.