Admiral Valdemar wrote:I knew this whole "Teh intarwebs can supply EVERYTHINK!!1!" movement wasn't going to end well. You can cram only so much down so many..,. tubes before the thing grinds to a halt. Either rates go up to accommodate these new data intensive applications (and digging up roads to put in new fibre-optics is expensive), or we get caps. And then you get the Internet class argument again.
I know this engineer who goes on about fiber cables, he says the fibers themselves are nowhere near capacity, not even a little, the issue is the equipment on both sides of the fiber cables.
A pretty good analogy would be an office building, the cables aren't at capacity. You just have a whole bunch of 10mbit switches holding everything up.
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His Divine Shadow wrote:Oh I was a bit too fast on the submit button, anyway the point was, stop postponing building fiber, it's going to pay off in the long run.
Yeah, but phone companies don't like to think in the long run, they like to think about the next annual report.
