The delayed notification is what virtual bandwidth is all about. You can either spend your time waiting for something to download, and determine your eXperiene level from the quality of the content you get vs the amount of time you spent waiting to get it. You can get an immediate response by receiving a stream, where your eXperience will be measured by a Signal to Noise ratio. So instead of watching a live stream of a prerecorded news feed, why not get the pre-recorded bits to my PC while it has bandwidth and processing cycles available and have the 'show' ready for me when I am. Every business needs customers, and you get customers by solving a problem for them.
Enough customers makes an industry.
With television, every person you add as a viewer lowers your cost incrementally. With the Internet, every person you add as a viewer adds to your cost incrementally This holds true for all bandwidths, from Websites to Digital Broadcast Video. Simultaneously, BroadBand has been commoditized faster than it can be rolled out, putting the broadcast-minded telcos in a bad spot. This site is using the Lemon Lime 1.0 theme.