Alakar
Facts do not cease to exist when ignored
join:2001-03-23
Milwaukee, WI
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| This story is a little misleading.
"Singapore is also the only country with nationwide deployment of pre-cert 100Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 cable service".
Singapore is a City-State about 3.5 times bigger then Washington DC and a population of 4.5 million. While technically this is a "National 100Mbps Network", in reality it is one city being wired for this. I don't really see this as front page news. Aren't there US cable operators that plan to have DOCSIS 3.0 rolled out alot sooner then 2015?
»https://www.cia.gov/library/publications···/sn.html
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
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join:2004-01-06
Sweden
·Verizon FIOS
 ·Optimum Online
| said by Alakar  :"Singapore is also the only country with nationwide deployment of pre-cert 100Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 cable service". Singapore is a City-State about 3.5 times bigger then Washington DC and a population of 4.5 million. While technically this is a "National 100Mbps Network", in reality it is one city being wired for this. I don't really see this as front page news. Aren't there US cable operators that plan to have DOCSIS 3.0 rolled out alot sooner then 2015? » https:// www.cia.gov/library/publications···/sn.html Yeah, exactly... Where is the joy in Verizon rolling out FIOS??? They have place many more miles of fiber than Singapore will ever use in their network...
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walliser
join:2002-01-27
Philadelphia, PA
| reply to Alakar
You mean like... Comcast is going to wire Philly with Docsis 3.0 by 2015 and offer 100Mb service at roughly US$90?
For all those people always throwing that "but it's only the size of NYC (or fill in other city/state)" argument around. How come NYC is not wired for 100Mb service? Surely, if some "third world nation" such a Singapore or South Korea can do it, it should be a breeze to do that sort of thing here. |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Singapore isn't a third world nation, its a vaguely fascist small island nation that is the hub of shipping in Asia. They've been very good about increasing their economy, and this will contribute to it.
If their government lives up to it's paternalistic heritage, expect some content control/filtering on the internet provided by this network. |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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·Charter Pipeline
·AT&T Southwest
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oh please. this is the best and favorite freaking excuse for the status quo shills. please explain to everyone why in NYC (and the other most densely populated urban areas in the U.S.) there isn't this level of commitment or deployment?
IT ISN'T JUST BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF SINGAPORE! it's the greedy corporations and lack of backbone by the government in this country. |
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jjmcay
@comcast.net
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Nicely said axus. That's right. For every power that is given to government to what you want, also you give them the power to do something that you don't want. In this case its filtering and political control the network. With the good, comes the bad. Actually I'd just say it's mostly bad when it comes to fascism or socialism. |
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