Vielgus-Kutas
Limp Gawd
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besides, if the bandwidth is available and affordable, i am positive that people will come out with many fun and creative ways to utilize it
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This guy seems to think that there is no real need for 1Gbps service in the home.
umm if you look up in the above posts you see a clear example of why current internet connections are ready to be saturated right now.
The example that's quoted below your post is for an enterprise application. I have no doubt that there are companies that could use Gb pipes, but that's not what Verizon is talking about. Enterprises don't get Gb pipes for $70.00.
If you manage to some how require 1Gb, great, but most customers don't need it and most aren't going to dump 70/month for internet.
I'd take 1Gb for $120 a month.... Then again, I'm currently paying $45 a month for 3 meg DSL. The MAXIMUM speed my AT&T offers. Sadly, I've been waiting for U-verse for years and it just arrived Wednesday!
Problem is... I called to upgrade and the maximum speed offered in my area is 768kb.
The example that's quoted below your post is for an enterprise application. I have no doubt that there are companies that could use Gb pipes, but that's not what Verizon is talking about. Enterprises don't get Gb pipes for $70.00.
That's the problem, in many cases the main trunks of fiber are laid. But it's the big "ISPs" (Comcast & AT&T usually) that prevent it from getting used either by keeping it tied up in the courts or "freely speaking" (with donations) to those in charge. There's fiber not but 2 blocks away from me, it's all dark though.Once the fiber is laid its all an issue of maintaining the service.
Enterprise service is far and away different from consumer. Enterprise requires massive tolls of bandwidth and 99.99 percent reliable service minimum up time otherwise since time is money it cripples businesses not actively functioning. Consumers lose the Internet and its lame but it doesn't cripple them from continuing day to day activities unless they are running a small business out of their home which changes things.
The truth is that all of these services are overpriced. Business pay through the nose because they don't have a choice. Consumers , same deal. Once the fiber is laid its all an issue of maintaining the service. The amount of profit these ISP's rake in is astounding compared to after investment servicing.
There is very little oversight either. The FCC is probably the least functional arm of the Government. Tom Wheeler is a Dingo and bought and paid for by ISP's. Until the Internet is declared a utility things will remain the same.
People still don't think access to the net should be a right (or not enough of them) even though its now a function of your day to day life and many of the ways you can even achieve those functions is only because of the Internet. Other countries have seen this truth and made it mandatory. But here in the states its just a "luxury" and corporations are allowed to move about the cabin freely and take and do what they want when they want.
There is no debate anymore. 2 Million plus people chimed in about hating anti-net neutrality concepts being proposed by ISP's and the FCC's response? A joke of a "hybrid" plan that allows them exactly what they want circumventing the entire argument and leaving us without any say in the matter. That is a failure of capitalism because the market should dictate its own progression and the market is us the consumer.
Verizon should be honest and just say "We are scared shitless because Cable TV is dying. Its a huge revenue stream and now that everyone has a device connected to the Net that is portable and capable we see the writing on the wall. But here is how we will stifle this evolution of technology with archaic behavior and bought and paid for politicians"
The end.
That's the problem, in many cases the main trunks of fiber are laid. But it's the big "ISPs" (Comcast & AT&T usually) that prevent it from getting used either by keeping it tied up in the courts or "freely speaking" (with donations) to those in charge. There's fiber not but 2 blocks away from me, it's all dark though.
Zarathustra[H];1041245930 said: