With regard to the first issue: bandwidth requirements do not scale linearly.
The audio encoding is the last to suffer loss due to the lower bandwidth requirements.
Infogate does not have the same huge bandwidth requirements nor is it as disruptive.
However applications with lower bandwidth requirements are likely to become widespread sooner.
This could indicate that the bandwidth requirements top out at 8 kHz.
Skype's bandwidth requirements vary depending on the type of call you're making.
The language can also associate different media objects with different bandwidth requirements.
Eventually everyone will need optical fiber because bandwidth requirements are going to keep expanding and the radio spectrum is almost full.
These generally would be of different quality and bandwidth requirements, so the client can request an appropriate stream for whatever network conditions allow.
The technological barriers, like bandwidth requirements, have been too high.