Subj : ISPs and their stone age POV
To   : Bj”rn Felten
From : Joe Delahaye
Date : Sun Jan 17 2016 12:20:16

  Re: ISPs and their stone age POV
  By: Bj”rn Felten to Joe Delahaye on Sun Jan 17 2016 17:20:06

 JD>> You're saying DSL is outdated?  What would they then do with those
 JD>> millions of DSL customers?

 BF> Yes I say it's outdated. At least in Sweden they are in the same
 BF> situation vs. fibre as ADSL was vs. POTS modems just ten years ago.

Not here, or in the USA.


 BF> Our government has set up a goal that by 2020 90% of all Swedish
 BF> households shall have access to at least 100/100M internet connection.
 BF> That usually means fibre -- but 4G is coming fast and 5G is already in
 BF> action here.

4G and 5G are cell technologies, and thus very expensive here.  I dont t hink
there are any routers and/or receivers available here yet,except for
individual devices (dongles)


 BF> In 2014, 54% of all Swedish households were connected via fibre. 99,4%
 BF> had access to LTE (4G).

Would be nice.  Here Ma Bell is saying this year (maybe) we will have fibre,
but, they are fighting hard to keep the independents out of that.  I have to
use Bell lines, but they are not my Internet provider.  I have an independent,
and get 4 times the bandwidth for half the price.  There are drawbacks
unfortunately.  The big companies who have to supply bandwidth to the
independents, tend to slow things down whenever they think they can get away
with it.



 BF> So, not many are forced to use ADSL here any more... 8-)

I prefer it to cable in any case <G>
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