Yes! you saw that right. By 2011, about 4 million houses and businesses will be able to get a fibre-optic broadband service of upto 40mbps downlink speed and 10mbps uplink speed. Net nirvana!
Unfortunately it’s only for BT customers in UK. Sorry yek.. not in Malaysia.
Never mind… on this cool Saturday midnight, just imagine that kind of speed. What can we do with internet… Cloud computing? kacang putih High-def IPTV? why not?
Join forces with cousin in JB to shoot the aliens to smitherens online? get the whole clan also can
24×7 web cam to see the lonely kitty at home? no problem
. These are old stuffs – I’m sure there are lotsa things we can do.
Since we can’t have #yorais jokes here.. we can also do good stuff like distance learning. Not just the usual kiddy stuff, think of online cookery class with Chef Wan or gardening etc. Not sure what exactly iPad that Apple gonna launch next week – but I bet it will be very useful to have it hooked on a WiFi-N class wireless router and bring it to bed or toilet.
How much will the 40mbps cost in UK? £19.99 per month around RM110 per month. Now, now… close your gaping jaw friend. I know it’s what we’re paying for a 1mbps Streamyx currently or Maxis 3G HSPA service. It’s not a related subject….
Related articles:
- BT Infinity pricing to undercut Virgin Media (computing.co.uk)
- BT ‘super fast’ broadband to kick start price war (telegraph.co.uk)
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A near impossibility here in Malaysia.
Unless there is an ISP rich/mad enough to lay fiber-optics all throughout Malaysia..
Hi Awang.. actually it is possible. But we have to be innovative a bit. We can follow the Stockholm model, whereby the incumbent telco lay the main infrastructure all over town (which they already am doing as part of their telco infrastructure) and then there are dozens of smaller ISPs that hook up to the main infra and buy bandwidth wholesale and sell retail to houses and businesses.
Can see the jalan already or not? Ya lah.. people like TM, Digi, TNB or Maxis are probably already doing that (at least in main cities) or as part of HSBB Program.
The problem is that they all prefer to makan sendiri and dislike the idea of sharing the business with others. Who wants to be a big friendly giant (BFF) when you can be a monopoly monster?
You may already know that a standard fibre network can carry 3Gbps of network. Let’s say the incumbent Telco apply a 10x sharing (usually more), that mean the network can carry 30Gbps concurrent usage.
I can it can be done. The question is whether they want to or not…
well, i see 3 ways on how we can get those speeds in Malaysia
1. The Big friendly giant telco like you said (probably not gonna happen)
2. some other smaller ISP manages to rally up to compete with the giant telco
3. satellite carried broadband i.e.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Internet-Space-Router-Cisco-Satellite,news-5622.html
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