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Skyrocketing Broadband Demand May Be Leveling Off, NCTA Says

Overall national consumer downstream peak usage is up 19% since March 1, but a drop of 1% last week could point to consumer usage and demand leveling off, NCTA blogged Tuesday. Others that day and in recent days reported similar…

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(see report, this issue, or 2004060038). NCTA said overall upstream peak growth is still growing -- at potentially a slower level. It said since March 1, national upstream peak growth rose 33%. It will take more than one week of data before reaching conclusions, it said.