China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds
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AT&T still hasn't installed fiber in my old neighborhood where one of their lines cuts straight through a row of houses that conveniently do get fiber, while everyone else is stuck on cable.
Did I mention they received billions in federal funding to upgrade everyone?
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Yeah no one uses the internet over there, but they're doing it anyway just to shit on Verizon
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I probably shouldn't have posted it that way. I've been to Bejing, but I picture a lot of rural rice farmers just NOT part of the Internet and of course with censorship rampant, I just figure, why so fast? Sounds like flexing. But maybe I'm wrong.
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Well, at least they're doing it quietly.
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We already have private 100gbps in Australia and our public network just trialled it last year so rollout is expected this year.
Why is anyone celebrating 50gbps? I can’t imagine Australia is anywhere near leading here.
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This would be for a business, surely? I can't imagine any individual having a use case for those speeds.
I can get 8 gigabit symmetrical if I want to, but I don't.
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I'm not, I want to subscribe to this newsletter
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Even rice farmers watch Netflix.
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It’s up to the ISPs what plans they sell. But cost wise it would be so prohibitive that only a business would buy it for the first few years for sure.
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Not only that, but what's the use case? Who on earth is slinging that much data around?
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Come on mate, internet in Australia is pretty shit after the NBN fiasco. Let me know when any of those those 100gbps lines reach 1gbps xD.
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That's cool, but all the important stuff doesn't take much.
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So they received money for something they didn't do. They should pay those back.
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They are ostensibly a one party state, not a dictatorship.
This sentence feels so Soviet.
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Yeah, hate that the world views him as not a dictator, at least formally, but I don't make the rules.
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Not just this one. But I think you are overestimating such improvements over strategic ones that the US is still doing more. Say, Starlink really turning into some sort of planetary cell network.
