The internet is being stretched further day by day. This story on Fox News shows the growing problem of insufficient internet infrastructure as more and more devices are becoming connected.
The first device that took hold of the market was the iPhone followed by a line of others, all trying to get a grip in the market. The internet at the moment is designed for less devices that require less bandwidth but as the number of these new smaller devices, that use a lot of bandwidth, start to grow the speed and amount of information that can travel that can travel to and from each becomes less. For example, take a busy motorway at rush hour. When there is many cars, at the same time, trying to travel to and from different places everyone gets there slower as the road is not big enough to take this many cars.
This story has a few things that I think make it a little bias:
1) The choice of words and the tone of the reporters makes this out to be a disaster, but in reality it is not, it a a problem but not a disaster. a disater would be a nuclear war but not the internet being slow.
2) The story gives the statistic that 50,000,000 tablet PC's are estamated to be sold in the USA in the next year.
3) The peice of news was in the front page when I found it so lots of people will see it. This could mean it could make people angry.
4) The internet is being made faster and larger all the time with new fibre optic cables and faster computers so as long as these continue to be put in place faster than the growth in use of these hand held devices the problem should be containable.
Finally the story is not quite focused on one specific subject as it starts off by saying the we are running out of bandwidth and moves on to the speed of WI-FI and the same problem there.
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