Despite the dip, IDC raised its projection for 2011 media tablet computer sales to 53.5 million units from 50.4 million units, thanks to a pack of new tablet computers due to arrive in the second half of 2011.
Existing telephone bandwidth was perfectly adequate for voice communications, but became suddenly inadequate when the Internet enabled the global abundance of computers, generating data at megabits a second, to come together into a single, gigantic network.