As cable modems increase in popularity, individuals may find less bandwidth available to them; Excite@Home has also taken to limiting upstream (to the Internet) speed to as little as 128 kbps in selected areas to prevent home users from running services like Web servers.
Ms. Kroes said she intended to push operators to clearly disclose Web restrictions as well as potential minimum Internet speeds, not just the maximums that operators promote in advertisements.
The report, as usual, looks at global Internet speeds, as well as the state of Internet security, the number if IPv4 numbers in use and other similar metrics.
Comcast spokeswoman Sena Fitzmaurice said in a separate statement that the transaction would bring consumers benefits such as faster Internet speeds, better programming choices and lower costs, "all things that we think consumers will like".
As internet speeds rise around the world, many consumers are choosing to stream entertaining videos online instead of watching live television.
But that'll change, Hastings predicted, as Internet speeds continue to get faster and more reliable, the number of "smart TVs" -- those with Web connections -- proliferate, and a number of other factors reshape consumer behavior.
The following year, Massive Attack were back illustrating a 300Gbps attack; as internet speeds have gone up worldwide, so have DDoS sizes.
Video dens, public televisions and satellite offerings at home are unlikely to fade out any time soon, but as internet speeds improve and costs decline, more and more viewers turn to streaming sites and online viewing.
But as internet speeds increased and computing technology improved, GIFs were discarded for some time in favor of more high-quality files.
As Internet speeds got faster, uploading and streaming videos became simple.
