Experts Warn Internet Is Running Out of Bandwidth

Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 percent a year, will start to exceed supply as early as 2010 because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry Web sites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC's iPlayer... Beginning in 2012... PCs and laptops are likely to operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the Internet an "unreliable toy."