south park - over logging

I haven't watched South Park for quite some time now but I decided to check out the latest episode. I did not regret that. It was a brilliant episode about the internet. South Park and the US had used up all their internet and Stan and the Marsh family becomes internet refugees and head out the Californee way in their search for some internet. They hope that there's still is some internet in Silicon Valley, at least the rumours says so. Many tech blogs, like Gizmodo for example, have had a lot of fun since AT&T's VP for Legislative Affairs Jim Cicconi said almost exactly the same thing as Randy: "We are going to be butting up against the physical capacity of the internet by 2010." Or as Randy put it: "It's easy for us to think we can just use up all the internet we want but...it could one day be gone forever."

So, it seems like the market focus on harvesting the profits instead of investing some of it in building a new internet infrastructure with larger capacity. So what's the market solution? Well, no government intervention of course and then some traffick management/regulations on top of that. No wonder Apple wasn't worried to release the iPhone whithout 3G capacity in the states. If the market decides then there will never be a 3G or 4G communications system in the states. It's too expensive to build and will have a negative impact on the short term profits and the shareholders confidence in the internet and telecom providers.