I've wondered if the recent advent of cable modems could change our entire Internet/telecommunications strategy. Provided that the cable network becomes widely available, more internet users would shift from using telephone lines for access to cable lines. Couple that with the use of the internet phone, and the phone line would only be necessary for communicating with non-internauts. I can see a number of ramifications for this - companies making money from long distance usage would be rather upset - and backbone providers would have to upgrade existing circuits to handle the increase in traffic. Anyone have thoughts/comments in regard to this as well?
"Yeah, sure.. we can give you high bandwidth to your home. Oh, and did I forget to mention that you get to share it with 10,000 of your closest friends?" Cable modems don't impress me.. -Wayne