[LINK] Telstra's one up on BT!

[Howard Lowndes]

Try Nepal for size.  The Nepal Telecom are advertising that ADSL 2+ is
available at most telephone exchanges in the Kathmandu valley and that you
can get speeds from 128 to 256 kbps.   Wow, now that rocks when you
consider that I am currently on VSAT at 88 kbps aggregated...


On Thu, May 1, 2008 16:12, David Goldstein wrote:
> Whatever we think of Telstra, apart from Phil Burgess' idiotic comments,
> it is more advanced than BT in rolling out ADSL2 in the UK with BT
> announcing this week it will begin its roll out of ADSL2, but only to
> around one million households, or around one third of households.
>
> And again part of the squabble is about funding a roll out of faster
> broadband and returns from it. But at least they are thinking of tomorrow
> in the UK with talk there of fibre to the home and speeds of between
> 50Mbps and 100Mbps, not fibre to the node and minimum speeds of a paltry
> 12 Mbps.
>
> See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7376173.stm.
>
> Cheers
> David
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