There was this assumption that as soon as people got a notion for what broadband was, they would want it -- that it would be as automatic in some ways as adoption of the dial-up Internet was in the U.S., where growth was very quick and almost happened by itself as opposed to really needing to be sold.
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ISPs' rhetoric is increasingly strident about content from outside providers raising the costs of their networks. But I haven't seen hard data that suggests the volume of legitimate video is coming close to swamping ISP networks yet.
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Should service providers use existing wiring in the home, or should they use wireless This is still an issue that is still very much open for debate.
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I think all (the IM companies) think that this is an idea whose time has finally come. All of them realize that while voice chatting between IM users is a nice thing, what they really need to do longer term in order to make the platform more viable is make that connection out to the phone networks.
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