GuysŠwe're done on this. Let it go, already. -c
On 14-02-13 19:13 , "Masataka Ohta" <[email protected]> wrote: >Mark Andrews wrote: > >>> Sadly, it is impossible to say FTTC not "fiber optic broadband", >>> because it is "broadband" (at least with today's access speed) >>> with "fiber optic". >> >> And by that argument pots dialup is fiber optic because the packets >> went over a fiber optic link to get to the CO. > >Well, not pots, but, NTT was, against ADSL, advertising their >128Kbps ISDN dial up as "high speed Internet". > >So, 128Kbps dial up might have been "broadband" at that time >at least for NTT, until, in late 2001, Japanese government >defined "high speed Internet access network" access network to >be able to smoothly download music data etc. with examples of >xDSL, CATV and Wifi. > > Masataka Ohta >

