Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.
Bruce Walker, head of Centrica Storage (which runs Rough), worries that a government-run reserve would be seen by the private sector as a safety net, reducing its incentive to build commercial storage.
All of a sudden, developers were not just limited to micro-blog posts and private messages ( added in December), but any kind of app that relied on file storage like photo sharing, group collaboration as well as personal data organization.