[LINK] Australia shows US how a real broadband strategy works !!!!

[Saliya Wimalaratne]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:16:47AM +0100, Adam Todd wrote:
> 
> Glad that was the US and not the UK.  The UK appears to have 20MBps 
> fibre to the household in large populated areas.  Yes that's MB not Mb.

No, it's not. 

Firstly, nobody talks about 20MBps (the nomenclature would be 160Mbps, 
because nobody wants to explain to a customer that 20MB is actually bigger 
than (say) 100Mb).

Secondly, while 160Mbps to the home is certainly possible over fibre, and 
while some offerings _are_ 100Mbps in places in Europe, they're certainly 
not the norm, and they're not currently readily available in the UK. The
BT _trials_ of FTTH in the UK (to 300 homes!) are for a 2.5Mbps baseline 
service with bursting to 100Mbps. 

The readily-available flagship offerings in the UK at present are 20Mbps 
(yes, little b)... not that far off where ADSL2 places Australia if you live
within 30cm of an ADSL2-enabled exchange.

















Yes, the 30cm was facetious. But you get the idea.


Regards,

Saliya