[LINK] Business fetishism (was Re: LINK] Four Corners NBN)

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Richard Chirgwin
<rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> In highly-developed broadband markets, consumers outnumber businesses -
> usually by about 10:1 - both in subscribers and revenue. The real
> breakthroughs, in market sustainability, scale, application diversity
> etc, come from pervasive networks that connect everybody.

It´s the upstream, s******** (seriously)

Traditional residential broadband services, as envisioned by the
for-profit telcos using HFC networks or ADSL is *assymetric*, with
upload speeds barely enough to send email and do video chat with
crappy resolution (often 1/4´th to a 10th of the download speed). That
is, that approach assumes consumers to be "downloaders" of
information, passive consumers of Youtube or web sites.

The true revolution will be when, thanks to FTTH, those artificial
limits are removed, and residential customers enjoy
high-speed-upstream connections (as provided by symmetric FTTH links).
Thus the barrier between "business grade" internet links and
residential broadband is eliminated, and ANYONE can become a true
"services provider" on the global Network.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1016487/home-broadband-customers-are-crippled-vint-cerf-reckons

Just my $0.02
FC