WebTV to destroy Bandwidth?

It’s an interesting question, actually. Especially since the companies using the most bandwidth are not building infrastructure, but simply paying for it. So will the infrastructure providers be able to support the massive upgrade projects that might be necessary to support these much larger data loads? Or is the whole thing simply much ado about nothing, seeing as how we’re years behind Europe and much of Asia in terms of average bandwidth and connectivity?

I’m guessing that we’re going to need to see large-scale fiber roll-outs before we’ll be able to see a legitimate return to consistent data transfer. It might even be in industry’s best interest to form some sort of infrastructure consortium to kick-start the whole thing. Who knows. But with so much more of today’s businesses interacting over the web, if webTV takes off without an infrastructure boost, we could see a crippled internet capability for lots of businesses…