French put va va voom into broadband

[Globetrotter]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6936325.stm






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[GavinMannion]

I feel sick...

Fibre to the home.... awesome..

I love this part

When I try it out with my laptop I find I'm only getting around 22Mbps - but then I am using a wi-fi connection, which would curb the speed, and there is a high-definition television online using some of the bandwidth.

All for +-R420

 

[ldmelsa]

[AI]56kMan can't come to the computer right now because he is busy crying.[/AI]

 

[ShaunSA]

eish

 

[Shake&Bake]

My eyes felt like popping out, jaw dropped through the entire article - seriously.

.......*shakes head, walks away from PC*

 

[feo]

"A few years ago there was virtually nothing," Guillaume Kuch told me when I visited his apartment in the Paris suburb of Neuilly.

"Now all sorts of companies are offering at least 10Mbps."

I pray we'll be saying this in 2010. Cmon Neotel, you're digging up every piece of tarmac around now make it count.

Guillaume is paying 14 Euros a month (around £10) for a 12Mbs connection and free phone calls. That's about half as much as I pay in London for something one sixth as fast.

****!

So far just two thousand people have signed up to the fibre service, which costs 45 Euros a month (£30) for the internet connection, a 51 channel television service and unlimited phone calls. But Orange is aiming for up to 200,000 customers by the end of 2008.

We are being pomped into kingdom here. There are quite a few that I've read of that changed their poor broadband situation and turn it around COMPLETELY in a matter of a few years. I think we're next on that list, it's the first time I've ever seen so many roads being dug up and fibre being laid so it kinda gives me hope.

 

[ldmelsa]

****!

indeed LOL