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Engadget has reported that AT&T has boosted the bandwidth on their UVerse internet service to a maximum of 10mbps down and 1.5mbps up. That’s not too shabby. It puts pretty much all of the cable internet companies to shame, but doesn’t quite hold up to Verizon’s best FIOS offering. It’s important that service providers bring the speed and quality (that is, don’t put in unstated bandwidth caps like Comcast does) so web 2.0 platforms (like the wonderous Appcelerator) can take off. Although the frameworks themselves don’t take up the bandwidth, the dynamic content they deliver certainly does demand higher speed connections. A perfect example of this is Apple’s new movie rental service and Netflix’s movie streaming service. It’s especially important in Netflix’s case, where the possibility of high-quality, HD movies streamed directly to a set-top box could make a movie buff drool (assuming service providers don’t put in bandwidth caps).