China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds
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Well, at least they're doing it quietly.
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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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What would anyone need 50Gb for?
Like seriously, what would that get you what you can't do now?
My local Network adapter isn't half that fast
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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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BRB moving to China
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Small time server admins?
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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.
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High speed internet behind the Great Firewall sounds wonderful. It would be like rapid public transit behind the iron curtain. You can go quickly and conveniently to any dim, depressing place we let you go.
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The article you linked describes plans reaching up to 1000Mbps (1Gbps).
That's only 2% of the speed of the theoretical 50Gbps maximum OP's article discusses (and 10% of the 10Gbps real-world speeds currently available in China according to the same article). I think you have your units mixed up.
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