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• robulus commented on 100Mbps Internet Connection For 11 USD Per Month
  Hi Spazzm, I thought it was pretty clear I wasn't arguing against regulation, per se. The point of current regulation is that they are forced to be nice in return because access to the infrastructure is regulated. AFAIK This doesn't actually effect the problem with the rollout of a new broadband network, which is that any major infrastructure Telstra might roll out, is subject to regulation by the ACCC, who are likely to decide that they need to set wholesale rates. So from Telstra's point of view, they build a super-duper new fibre network, then the ACCC decides how much...
• zuzu commented on 100Mbps Internet Connection For 11 USD Per Month
  I pay $60 (as part of a Bundle) for 20Mbps/20Mbps FiOS. Super stable, super fast, never slows down....EVER!Same here, although I pay $65/month and that's a price carried over from the early days of 15Mbps/2Mbps. New Verizon customers as of January 2009 pay $70/month, I think. However, if local municipalities would float bonds (or use the Federal "stimulus") to lay local loop fibre to the curb as infrastructure (like roads and sewer), private ISPs would compete to provide Internet access over it and likely bring the price down to the same 100Mbps symmetric for $15 seen in Japan and Korea....
• eggomiego commented on 100Mbps Internet Connection For 11 USD Per Month
  Living in Edmonton, Canada. No fibre to home yet, hopefully in a few more years. The cable company is just starting to implement DOCSIS 3.0, so its out in a neighbouring province of Saskatchewan, running 100 Mbps down, and 5 mbps up through the cable connection, for 250 Dollars canadian... around 200 US. I currently have a 7.5 Mbps down, 512 Kbps up for 32 dollars canadian, about 25 dollars US, and a 15 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up for 42 dollars Canadian, about 35 US. This is all through the cable company named Shaw. The new DOCSIS system is...
• victor-venezuela commented on 100Mbps Internet Connection For 11 USD Per Month
  Here in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela), in the best situation we have 500Kbps to 1 Mbps download and 10k to 80k of upload speeds. The average monthly paymetnt is $US40. What do you think guys ?...
• Ampelmann commented on 100Mbps Internet Connection For 11 USD Per Month
  I live in Mexico and I must say I have a national cruzade against slow and expensive broadband. I pay 600 MXP ($46 usd) for telephone and internet (around 25 only for internet) for a 2 Mbps down / 384 kbps up. My ISP is Prodigy Infinitum ADSL by Telmex. Good thing, I have no download limits, and the speed is mostly constant (212 Kb/s down, 30 kb/s up). Sad thing, we don't have any higher speed here in Mexico City. Business connections can only get up to 4 Mbps and it costs around 140 usd. Fiber optics is a...