Let’s get real. Where there are bottlenecks in thw compendium of computing, the pursestring holders must let go of yhe reins and not in drips and drabs.

If you make the network faster then in a few months the industry will release just the very next version that will work with whatever protocol or speed is cutting edge.

Gigabit networks are already here. It’s the cable companies and Ma Bell who are stinting the growth of faster more robust machines by hoarding current technology and dragging their heels on getting last mile gigabit to the home plus threatening local governments get fiber to the premise far faster than their marketing dept’s can walk across the street.

If you think we will stand to wait for quad core smatphone be the end of 2012 then you’re in the wrong business baby.

“I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn’t – it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
Bill Gates 1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry.

In 1993 almost no consumers knew what the Internet was, let alone wanted it.

In 2012, a Duopoly controls Internet Access in most of the US and is doing its best to make sure Americans will never experience a Gigabit to find out what they want from that.

Its time to decouple Internet transport from people who want to control content and charge a toll for every byte even though the cost of delivering bandwidth is dropping faster than Moore’s Law.

Divestiture Now! Get the BellHeads and CableButts out of the Internet.