IS demos "bandwidth on demand" concept

I really hope this will become a reality. I can see it being really useful to be able to upgrade your speed for just when you need it. For normal browsing and email purposes a 1MB connection could be fast enough, but then when you are downloading something big you can switch to a fast connection (and pay more for that duration of time) to get your download quicker.
 
I really like the service. I need it extended to allow multiple vendors so I'm not buying all that expensive additional bandwidth from an expensive provider.
 
“Bandwidth on demand is going to become a reality,” Internet Solutions (IS) carrier services executive Raj Wanniapa told an audience at Internetix, an event held at the Dimension Data headquarters on 7 August 2012.
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Easy prediction:

I don't think this idea has much of a future in a competitive market: consumers don't need monopolistic tiered pricing based on stepped speed thresholds, what consumers need in the long term is the best possible speed with available bandwidth at competitive prices. This idea might take hold in the short term but it will ultimately be seen as a failed marketing gimmick that has no place in a bandwidth hungry future.

With service level agreements in place, clients will not worry about which last mile technology is used, whether it be fibre, satellite, wireless (3G, LTE, 4G, Wi-Fi, etc.) or copper (ADSL) connections, Wanniapa predicted.

Wi-Fi is destined to become the default method of connecting to network services, he added.
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I agree that wifi could become more prevalent for last mile access to fibre optic services instead of copper lines.

I don't see the point of providing access to an already RF based technology using a completely different RF based technology. There could be good reasons for considering it, like wholesale open access to RF networks (wireless/mobile "LLU"), but you might as well do away with HSPA and just have wifi to the towers and fibre optic as backhaul from there (all very unlikely to happen IMHO).
 
Why not provide maximum speed at all times and then just charge for the bandwidth used?
 
I did this for a network in Ireland, it barely got used...
It even had the option to switch between interleave and fastpath for the gamers who wanted lower latency... again, barely got used.
 
Why don't our ISP's upgrade our speed automatically after hours?
 
I think the ADSL in the title is misleading.

The speedtest done clearly indicates something other than ADSL being used, due to to the 10mbit upload achieved.

Where this does have implications is in ISP's who buy wholesale bandwidth from IS, are able to allow their clients to change bandwidth on non-adsl solutions on the fly.

If you have a big training event coming, or migrating to a cloud based service and need lots of bandwidth for a week or so, Spin it up. IF you are a wifi, Fibre or LTE last mile customer.
 
People don't want complication.

Internet must be seamless, like water out of a tap. We don't need to be adjusting pressure regulators out on the pavement when we want to water the lawn and have turn it back down again to pour a glass of water...
 
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