 | | OHHHHHHH Canada im doing my part to lesson this burden for the world OH wait higher is better damn sorry world canada sucks | |
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 |  japPremium
join:2003-08-10
038xx | Re: OHHHHHHH Canada said by funny:Canada sucks What posture have provincial governments (I hope it not national  ) taken against or for muni development? And are telcos required to sell backhaul to all comers as they are in the US? | |
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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Correction "Current average download speeds exceed 14 Megabytes per second (Mbps) and are expected to approach 20 Mbps by the end 2012, says the firm"
14megabytes per second is 112mbps. | |
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| jcremin
join:2009-12-22
Siren, WI
kudos:2 | Re: Correction said by tiger72:"Current average download speeds exceed 14 Megabytes per second (Mbps) and are expected to approach 20 Mbps by the end 2012, says the firm"
14megabytes per second is 112mbps.
Yeah, I don't get it why companies that do so much internet-related stuff mix up megabits and megabytes so often. I understand when the average consumer or non-technical company does it, but if you are doing an in-depth study about internet speeds, learn to use the right vocabulary. | |
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|  whfsdudePremium
join:2003-04-05
Washington, DC
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| said by tiger72:"Current average download speeds exceed 14 Megabytes per second (Mbps) and are expected to approach 20 Mbps by the end 2012, says the firm"
14megabytes per second is 112mbps.
The article is correct.
Mbps = Megabits (lower b) per second.
MBps = Megabytes (upper B) per second. | |
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| |  recoil0Premium
join:2005-02-22
Exton, PA | Re: Correction Not necessarily, they explicitly write out megabytes followed up with Mbps(Megabits) | |
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| | | jcremin
join:2009-12-22
Siren, WI
kudos:2 | Re: Correction said by recoil0:Not necessarily, they explicitly write out megabytes followed up with Mbps(Megabits) Agreed... Spelling out the word "megabytes" can never mean "megabits" regardless of what abbreviation they followed it up with. | |
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join:2003-04-05
Washington, DC Reviews:
·T-Mobile US
| Re: Correction said by jcremin:Agreed... Spelling out the word "megabytes" can never mean "megabits" regardless of what abbreviation they followed it up with.
Wow. My mind totally skimmed over that. You are totally right. | |
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join:2009-12-22
Siren, WI
kudos:2 | Re: Correction  Happens to me all the time too... Kind of like auto-correct built into your brain. | |
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| BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | Re: Somehow I seriously doubt this. Globally, most places are 14.4 HSPA+ or 21 HSPA+. Some countries are still using GPRS or EDGE, but the standard is pretty much 14.4 or 21, with the exceptions being LTE and GPRS/EDGE-only. | |
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| | It's a great time to roam HSPA+ is everywhere now, and it's generally very cheap for service. In the last three months I've used different cell companies in Spain, Germany, Hungary, and Romania and all have been shockingly fast with generally very strong coverage in metropolitan areas. Turkcell in Turkey has been the only exception because they have some congestion issues, but overall they weren't too bad either. In the US we have pretty good speeds, but the data allotments are quite low and expensive. This is just my opinion, of course. | |
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| | It's still just 2.7Mb here! Those figures can't be right with 4G on T-Mobile still being just 2.7Mb. I guess they don't count for much of the total though.
Of course you can't get 4G everywhere so it's Edge at 127kb or nothing at all most places. | |
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