http://gigaom.com/2006/06/08/dsl-second-rate-internet/
DSL, Second Rate Internet
Dave Burstein, who writes the very influential DSL Prime e-mail
newsletter, and one of the earliest champions of DSL and Broadband
has some interesting observations to make about the future of DSL.
His words, not mine: “ADSL is so last century. Today, it’s fiber home
or fiber + VDSL at 50 meg or more. Japan is the first country to see
a major drop in DSL as 5 million switch to fiber.” Now that is
telling, because the man makes a living tracking this industry, so he
knows the clock is ticking. He says that Comcast head honcho Brian
Roberts is betting that the cable giant will go “50 meg down, 15 meg
up pre-DOCSIS 3.0…in selected markets” by 2007. (Cablevision already
is offering those kind of speeds.)
Meanwhile, Australia, Canada, and more than half of the U.S. are
likely to spend the next decade with a second-rate Internet, 60% to
90% slower than leading countries.
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