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...helpful investment it would have been. For instance: Deutsche Telekom (whose network Malone was eyeing) now offers only 760-kilobit bandwidth to private users, whereas in the U.S. they can surf at the speed of 5 megabits. Again the basic mercantilist motto is this: "Don't help the consumer, protect the producer" - by keeping out foreign competition...
...site provides only streaming video, but hackers are constantly trying to download the films. "We try not to let people download movies because downloading takes up a higher amount of bandwidth," says Tan. "Also, we don't want people to download the movies and sell them on the street. That's what happened in Taiwan with Napster - all the college students started selling CDs on the street of songs they downloaded off the internet. We don't want people to do that with our movies. We want to broadcast them so people can watch them...
...deploying an Internet Protocol system that allows it to send video and data over a dedicated high-speed line--the same kind most companies use for Internet service. IP videoconferencing hasn't taken off yet because the bandwidth required to transmit streaming video would incapacitate most office networks. But once corporations have all the bandwidth they need, experts say, all videoconferencing will be done using IP. When videoconferencing gets to that level, "it will be operating on an easier platform," says Lou Gellos, spokesman for Terabeam, a Seattle-based firm that markets laser transmitters that can send...
...Bandwidth, the capacity of a fiber-optic line to transmit data from one place to another, was considered to be a commodity for which demand was virtually limitless. But as investors in U.S.-based telecommunications company Global Crossing have learned, "endless demand" turned out to be another New Economy nostrum. Anticipating a data tsunami that never came, Global Crossing built a $10 billion, 160,000-km fiber-optic network spanning two oceans and four continents. Last week, the New York Stock Exchange-listed company filed for U.S. bankruptcy court protection in order to restructure its $12.3 billion debt...
...traffic. Transmission prices on some routes fell 50% a year in 1999 and 2000. Analysts estimate that less than 5% of Global Crossing's total capacity is being utilized. "They built a formidable network, but they got caught between rapidly mounting debt and a stalled market for long-haul bandwidth," says TeleGeography analyst Stephan Beckert...