[LINK] Ireland calls for minimum Internet speeds of 30Mbps

[Fernando Cassia]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/ireland-calls-for-minimum-internet-speeds-of-30mbps/

>> On Thursday, he outlined a new broadband plan for Ireland that puts the United States to shame. He says that half the population, largely in the urban and suburban cores, should have speeds of 70Mbps to 100Mbps, with service of at least 40Mbps to the next 20 percent of the country. Finally, he writes, there should be a "minimum of 30Mbps for every remaining home and business in the country—no matter how rural or remote."

That is akin to saying "DSL is outlawed"... as ADSL2+ usually tops at 24 Mbit.

Or, in other words, move everyone on copper to VHSDSL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_high_speed_digital_subscriber_line_2

However, what politicians don´t get is that downstream speed is only
half of the equation, and that I´d be MUCH MORE concerned about
UPSTREAM levels, or at least a upstrem-to-downstream ratio of
asymmetric links...

My FTTH provider down in .AR for instance, stupidly continues the DSL
tradition of 10:1 downstream-to-upstream ratio, when the GPON
technology happily supports a 2:1 ratio.

Upstream is what, in the end, allows you to participate better in the
´digital economy´ (and cloud computing), as a provider of information
rather as just a passive viewer of youtube videos...

Or as Vint Cerf once told me... :)
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1016487/home-broadband-customers-are-crippled-vint-cerf-reckons
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