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- reeder, on 10/10/2007, -2/+79Hey AT$T, where the hell is our 50 Mbps?! If we don't have that, give us our $200 billion back, with interest.
- strictnein, on 10/10/2007, -2/+32Will they be able to surf the Internet from their saunas?
- daveddd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+32100Mbps? I am still trying to scrape 9Mb from cable. I feel so let down.
- loganhid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29100 Mbps!!! you kids with your fancy high Internet speeds. Back in my day all we had was a 56k line and to use that we had to walk for miles, up mountains, in snow, bare-naked, starving to death.
- blankoboy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22Welcome to the 100Mbps club! We were getting lonely here in Japan thinking it was only us and the Swedes. If only Canada/USA could get their lazy and corrupt beyond belief politicians and telecoms do their jobs they could be joining the club too. Sigh...oh well. Comcast FTW (lol!).
- kaelyiesta, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Didn't you hear? They need more money because they spent most of that just paying off all the politicians to get this crap pushed through congress in the first place. And people wonder why I despise government regulation. It's just giving power to a different group of corrupt people.
- AnotherCanadian, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21i have dialup
you guys can all go to hell :( - Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19finnish people ftw
- lundman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17I have 100Meg fiber, cost me 3400yen/month ($30us). I think the slowest DSL you can get is 8M, but most are 24M-54M.
- aknowles5139, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16I've had 100mbps internet here in (Ontario) Canada for years... Horrible amount of bandwidth though. I think a slower speed with more bandwidth would be better then a 60GB cap and faster internet. I know some people that only get 2GB of bandwidth a month.
- Jambi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Dear Reeder:
We here at AT&T would be thrilled to refund your 200 billion dollars, but I'm afraid we've spent it all paying consultants who've been advising us how to fortify our communications network against terrorism. Seeing as you're obviously a patriotic American (unless you happen to be from California), I'm sure you'll agree it was money well spent. And one more thing, seeing as we're so interested in keeping this country free, we'll be forwarding all communications you may send over our networks in the future. Now, this may result in a slightly higher monthly internet bill, but I'm sure you'll be glad to do your part.
Love,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Communications Conglomerate - Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14if this comes to america the other internet provides would be.....FINNISH
pun intended - hannasdeli, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10100Mbps broadband has been available here in Sweden for the last 7 years thanks to Bredbandsbolaget. Unfortunately i can only connect via ADSL2 at 25Mbps: Things download from Apple's website at 2.000 KBps!!!!!! I sometimes can't stop laughing when i remember the 7 minutes it took to load a 48KB game in my ol' Sinclair Spectrum!
- GliTCH82, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10You can guarantee news like this will never make it on American media. Why, if Americans found out they aren't getting the best technology, we might actually start demanding our money's worth! Then, how will AT&T and Time Warner's execs get to buy their private jets and yachts?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Voi Perkele!
- ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I get unlimited bandwidth, but only 768kbps. Costs $50 dollars a month because of the stupid telco monopoly in our town...
- epu2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7i'm stuck with a 1 mbps connection (150-160 KBps) at best
- rauz, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12How is this news? It's available in a lot of countries around the world, I could order it now from my current supplier and have it in the morning, seven hours from now.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Dear Reeder:
We here at AT&T would be thrilled to refund your 200 billion dollars, but I'm afraid we've spent it all paying lawyers to keep the iPhone from being hacked. Seeing as you're obviously a proponent of the DMCA, I'm sure you'll agree it was money well spent. And one more thing, seeing as we're so interested in making money, we'll be focusing all efforts on that. Now, this may result in a slightly higher monthly phone bill, but I'm sure you'll be glad to do your part.
Love,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Communications Conglomerate - brianbb98, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7and my 40 acres and a mule...
- SillyRabbits, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Lol, I remember breaking out the new 1200 baud modem that let you plug directly into the phone line (and get rid of the damn acoustic coupler).....and man, I thought I was the *****. BBS sites at 1200 baud would actually load their text faster than you could read it!
- morpheus69, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Japan has had 100 Mb Fiber to the Home for at least five years. When I was living there from 2002-2006, I only paid $50 per month for my 100 Mb fiber connection. Of course, they don't have all the hot blonde chicks and kick ass metal bands... but they do have girls who dress up like cartoon characters. Hmmm... I think I'm still going to give this one to Japan."
- Xizer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Sweden also has 100 Mbps connections.
- PlasmaFlux, on 10/10/2007, -0/+456k! Jeebus. I remember breaking in my shiny new 2400 baud modem by calling local BBSes on my 8086 with a CGA monitor. ANSI graffix were revolutionary, and I felt like a NASA deep-space astronaut when I stumbled onto a Gopher site in Europe!
Crap. I'm only 28....why do I suddenly feel really really old?!?! - rajulkabir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The $10/month service in China is 1mbps, not 100mbps.
- tiffany98121, on 10/10/2007, -0/+42400 baud modem!!! when i was using my 300 baud acoustic coupler in the atari 400, we would have killed for that kind of speed :p
- sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Does that mean we can expect some really good Finland based web-cam porn in the near future?
- Tenoq, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4At least you get unlimited. Australia doesn't even have true unlimited. All of them are shaped (ie, 1500kbps for the first 12GB, then 64kbps for the rest of the month). And it still costs us more than you lot. Quit your whinging. :P
- jazstaR, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Australia: worst internet in the world.
- RubberBinder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I get ~5.5mbs/sec if I'm lucky and it costs me $50 a month, why does the US have to have such crap for internet speeds?
- SamuraiG, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Perkele indeed! its because they have some of the best metal bands
- brianbb98, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3wow... only with a meg connection i usually do about 6 gigs a week...
- titlesaysitall, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Ugh, and I thought my 15Mbit connection with Verizon FIOS was fast
:| - badassninja, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Sure does suck to live in the USA.
- norr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Around here apartments getting 100 Mbps would not make the news. When new apartments get built with slow internet or no internet at all it makes the news :)
I've got 100 Mbps my apartment (in northern Sweden), and I've had it for years. I used to have a relatively restrictive cap (1.5 GB/day), but it was removed six months ago.
My parents living in a house in a small village have 100 Mbps fiber. My grandma (93 years old) living way out in the countryside (a one hour drive from the closest city) has got 100Mbps fiber. Although she doesn't use it herself, it was installed when the contractors were doing the area, since the monthly cost is so low it seemed like a good idea. Try selling a house here with no internet :) - rauz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Count me in, I too remember when you seriously would have to think twice about whether or not you should download a fun jpg someone uploaded to a BBS.
- kurtergad87, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Usually it is 100 mbit _per home_.
- speedwank, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3/me packs his ***** in a large trailer, and checks the map.
- cybe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Finland used to be a Internet-forerunner until the telecommunications companies joined in on the fun and started profiteering...
- babyghost, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3 Japan, Canada and Hong Kong also has connection upto 100Mbps. And for Hong Kong, it already have 1000Mbps for years. And it's common for those households have 200Mbps broadband internet.
- lowter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Amen.
- skyshock1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Really having that much downstream is kind of ridiculous since nobody is going to be able to push that much upstream TO your PC. Let me know when an ISP is offering both 100Mbps up AND down.
- MrWh33l3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This topic has always bugged me. I'm not advocating moving to Utah, but a couple cities got together here and are starting their own fiber network that local companies can use. The big government can never get anything done, but leave it to the small communities and a lot can happen. The network is called UTOPIA by the way and claims they can get 100 Mbps to residential users and 1 Gbps to commercial users. The problem is that AT&T came in as a service provider using the fiber network and only offers 15 Mbps. Here is their website so you can see: http://www.usa.att.com/fiber/index.jsp
There is also a link from there website to the UTOPIA site. It is a joke how these companies limit the speeds we could have just because everyone else is stuck at 1.5 Mbps. Do they really think we will be happy surfing at 15% of our potential? - m0nkei, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I live in Finland and i have 24mbps dsl (tho the lines give me only around 12-13), no bandwidth limit and it costs 50€ per month.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It won't make the news because mostly Americans don't care. As of yet we hardly use the slow in comparison connection we have. Also, if you believe it's so easy easy to wire up a country as big as the US as compared to inner-city apartments, let me know when you'll be out there with a back-hoe digging up trenches, laying pipe, installing fiber, and getting it all connected. In the meantime, stop whining
- unruled, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3students in holland get 100mbit/100mbit for free (included in service bill). Ive been enjoying it quite thoroughly :)
- salvatoreiovene, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Switzerland?
- AdamSnow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Where in Ontario, and what provider are you using to get 100mps?
I'm in Ontario and would like to look into this as well. - tony4moroney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i got 10gb how on earth would you use up 60gb per month? i thought thatd be well sufficient
- tony4moroney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1how the hell do you manage to get on digg. when my nets capped to 56kb i feel like dying.
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