[1st-mile-nm] More Fiber News: Might We Get Lucky?

[Richard Lowenberg]

Fiber bandwidth and pricing news from abroad, and on Verizon's blazing
hot services.
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I'm feeling lucky: Hongkong fiber 100 Mbps $48 per month

<http://www.muniwireless.com/article/view/6442/>

Actually I would feel lucky about super fast broadband if I lived in
Hongkong where people get 100 Mbps for $48.50 and 1 Gbps for $215.40.
Here in the Netherlands we are nowhere near that. Our Amsterdam
Citynet FTTH project has not even reached the city center where I live.

But other people are even less lucky according to this article in
Gizmodo <http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/connectivity/hong-kong-fiber-
optic-rates-prove-verizons-fios-is-a-rip+off-303358.php> which says
Verizon in the US is "aggressively trying to sell the country on
their FiOS fiber optic web connection packages, which range from $40
per month for 5Mbps to 30Mbps for $180 (extra for TV and phone
service!)."

UPDATE

10 Mbps symmetrical service is the new dial-up.
Dirk van der Woude (Amsterdam) reports that in Hongkong, 10 Mbps
symmetrical service is being phased out. Too slow.


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