Just some follow-on to a post I had the other day linking to some data about broadband speeds around the world and the pathetic excuse that passes for broadband in the U.S.
Here’s a post at DSL Reports that quotes Verizon V.P. for FiOS TV Content Strategy Terry Denson as saying the “real reason” service providers in the U.S. aren’t offering 100Mbps download speed is because “nobody wants it except geeks” (my paraphrase).
Riiiiiiight, and 64K of memory is more than anybody will ever need, and the world market for computers stands at about five. Famous last words, pal. I suspect that all you would need to do is show people what they can do with a 100Mbps pipe in Japan and South Korea, and they would be beating down your doors for it. Instead, these rapacious bastards are going to dole out bandwidth with an eye-dropper, wringing out every last possible dollar they can get for each speed increase.
Meanwhile, DSL Reports also tells us that “Internet 2″, the research-institutions-only internet that has been around since 1996 (when the rest of us started clogging up the first internet with cat pictures and porn), has been bumped up to 100Gbps capacity.
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