- Wireless broadband business
is booming in hard economic times as consumers eliminate DSL and/or
cable to save on household expenses ("Thank you; we're calling to cut
off our phone service now!")
- Many consumers, tired of
"bundles," onerous contracts, and 15 minutes of commercials per hour
are going with Netflix for video
- Internet, however, remains a
"must have" item - both on its own and as a replacement for cable or
satellite video. Our ISP's Web traffic increased 30% in Q3 (and we
didn't add that many new customers), primarily due to video (including
Netflix video-on-demand)
- Many video players (e.g.
Adobe Flash) are poorly designed and require much higher connection
quality than they should
- very low latency, low jitter
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