For the longest time broadband providers claimed that there was a pending doomsday of Internet congestion where the Internet would breakdown because of all the traffic. Unfortunately for these broadband providers that claim has been dis-proven six ways of Sunday which has sent them scurrying for some other fear inducing term that would let them justify increasing prices and the introduction of caps – yet another way to provide less service for more money. With the rise of streaming and downloading of video – which everyone says is the biggest growth area for the Internet – these providers found their new term.
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