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FAST ENOUGH FOR YOU?
[SOURCE: Telephony Online, AUTHOR: Ed Gubbins]
The telecom industry has forever wrestled with the question of how much
bandwidth to deliver to residential consumers. But this year, a chorus of
authoritative voices is offering new proposals for specific speed goals. How
those target speeds should be calculated, however, is one more tough question
to ponder. In January, Vermont's governor proposed a plan to ensure all
Vermonters at least 3 Mb/s of symmetric bandwidth by 2010 and at least 20 Mb/s
symmetrically by 2013. In March, the Fiber-to -the-Home Council called on
Congress to ensure 100 Mb/s of symmetric broadband to most Americans by 2010
and to all Americans by 2015. And a bill introduced in the Minnesota state
legislature the same month called for the availability of 1 Gb/s of symmetric
bandwidth to all Minnesotans by 2015. How did they arrive at these numbers, and
whose methodology makes sense?
http://telephonyonline.com/home/news/telecom_fast_enough/
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