The deluge of data: Opportunity knocking?

[Commentary] Three opportunities telecommunications companies seem to be missing:

1) AT&T's seeming failure to recognize a creative solution to the imminent tsunami of iPhone/iPad data traffic that's about to engulf its networks;
2) incumbents gnashing of teeth about stimulus-funded networks overbuilding their areas; and
3) the bitter griping about the Federal Communications Commission's 4 Mbps speed goal for rural America.

AT&T's network performance has taken a beating from iPhones' data consumption. The old-fashion, sadly predictable response is to slap a cap, tout tier pricing and flail like mad to get the ole copper mare to run like she used to. Geez, the rest of the free market is stampeding toward enticing people to use more data and you want them to use less? If AT&T's CTO John Donavan is truly serious about moving heaven and Earth to improve their network service, he has to get the company to stop looking back to the obsolete but look forward to new opportunities. Such as municipal wireless.