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

[Richard Chirgwin]

Saliya Wimalaratne wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:16:47AM +0100, Adam Todd wrote:
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>> 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.
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> No, it's not. 
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> 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).
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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But even then, and perhaps unusually, I'm loath to lump it all on Adam.

The SOP for someone who wants to whine about inadequate broadband is as 
follows:

Pick a country
Pick a number
Say "Country" gets "Number" broadband services and we only get 256 Kbps 
(which is also a piece of bulldust I'm suck of hearing repeated over and 
again ...).

As Rex Stout once wrote, there are two kinds of statistics, the kind you 
look up, and the kind you make up. Here's one of the second kind: 90% of 
press broadband statistics are of the second kind.

Cheers
RC
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> Yes, the 30cm was facetious. But you get the idea.
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> Regards,
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> Saliya
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