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| dEsidEL |
Some of you may recall that there was a recent thread discussing the fact that Canadians already pay some of the highest usage fees for mobile phone service in the world .. well it also seems that we now pay some of the highest fees for Broadband internet accesss as well among developed countries..
even Rogers' Entry Level plan starts at $25 CDN / month for basic access. All figures shown in the article in in USD.
does anyone feel that this country's CRTC needs to start opening up the Canadian telecom industry to more foreign competition yet?
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Global broadband prices revealed
Broadband users in 30 of the world's most developed countries are getting greatly differing speeds and prices, according to a report.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report says 60% of its member countries net users are now on broadband.
The report said countries that had switched to fibre networks had the best speeds at the lowest prices.
In Japan net users have 100Mbps lines, 10 times higher than the OECD average.
Japan's price for broadband per megabit per second is the lowest in the OECD at $0.22 (0.11p), said the report. The most expensive is Turkey at $81.13 (£40.56).
In the US, the cheapest megabit per second broadband connection is $3.18 (£1.59) while in the UK it is $3.62 (£1.81).
CHEAPEST ENTRY LEVEL BROADBAND*
Sweden $10.79
Denmark $11.11
Switzerland $12.53
US $15.93
France $16.36
Netherlands $16.85
New Zealand $16.86
Italy $17.63
Ireland $18.18
Finland $19.49
*Source: OECD. Figures for October 2006
Subscribers to Japan's fibre networks can also upload at the same speed they can download, which is not possible with ADSL (broadband over a telephone line) and most cable subscriptions.
Sweden, Korea and Finland also offer 100Mbps net connections, as all four countries have switched to fibre optic networks.
The OECD represents 30 of the leading democratic economics, from Australia to the US, France to Japan.
"Broadband is very quickly becoming the basic medium for sevice delivery on both fixed and wireless networks," said the report.
JupiterResearch telecoms analyst Ian Fogg said: "It's very hard to draw comparisons across 30 countries globally because there are different trends happening in each of them.
However, he said the entry price for broadband was an incredibly important criteria to compare.
"Because the market is very fragmented consumers care about cheap prices."
According to the report, broadband prices for DSL connections across the 30 countries have fallen by 19% and increased in speed by 29% in the year to October 2006. Cable prices and speeds followed a similar trend.
BT (in the UK) has been very slow to switch across (to ADSL2+).
Ian Fogg, JupiterResearch
The least expensive monthly subscription for always-on broadband was in Sweden, where $10.79 (£5.40) bought a 256kbps connection. The country with the most expensive entry point for broadband access was Mexico, where it cost $52.36 (£26.18)for 1mbps.
Mr Fogg said: "In many of the OECD countries those people without broadband and making the transition are feeling their way and are very conscious of price. They haven't seen the need to go to broadband historically."
The entry-level price points do not take into account bundled deals, such as incorporating free broadband with a TV contract, which are becoming increasingly important to the market.
Mr Fogg said many countries had seen a jump in broadband speeds over the last few years as many ISPs utilising existing telephone lines had started to push ADSL2+.
ADSL2+ is a technology which doubles the frequency band of a typical ADSL connection over a phone line, in effect doubling the amount of data which can be sent downstream to a user.
The theoretical maximum speed of an ADSL2+ line is 24Mbps, still much slower than speeds over fibre optic networks.
"ADSL2+ hasn't happened everywhere and it's happened at different times in different countries," explained Mr Fogg.
"France was the first country in the western world to use the technology, about two or three years ago.
"BT (in the UK) has been very slow to switch across. The only option for UK customers has been to get it from competitors, notably Be, which is owned by O2, and Sky."
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/...ogy/6900697.stm
Published: 2007/07/16 13:01:58 GMT
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| rabbitjoker |
Population density makes fibre networks much cheaper to install.
Since we do not have significant population density - don't expect 100 mbps fibre lines anytime soon. |
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Population density makes fibre networks much cheaper to install.
Since we do not have significant population density - don't expect 100 mbps fibre lines anytime soon. |
this is tru .. altho if you compare Ontario to say Finland, population density is somewhat comparable, i.e. 13.93/km² to 16/km²
i can't imagine there not being a business case to provide fibre optic network service say across southern Ontario (7-8 million people?). running highspeed networks up into Timmins probably wouldn't net u a huge profit, albeit less breakeven..
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| patpicos |
Few problems:
the government prevents non-canadian companies for providing internet/cell phone coverage, so we are stuck with the following vendors: telus, rogers, cogeco, videotron, bell and a few others.
Since the amount of vendors is pretty low, the dont have to fight much price wise and keep their prices high.
RIAA, MPAA and and other loosers keep lobying the US gov. against high speed networks with are often the carriers of pirated content. |
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| patpicos |
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41004
High speed granny has $250,000 of kit
On the Mohney It's just a Swedish stunt
By Doug Mohney: Monday 16 July 2007, 08:02
PETER Löthberg is grinning ear-to-ear because he has people abuzz. Löthberg, as you may have read here, hooked up his dear old mum with 40Gbps Internet connectivity.
Of course, what the paper seems to have missed and Löthberg failed to mention was there is around upwards of at least $250,000 in hardware sitting in his Mum’s home to terminate the 40 Gbps circuit, including a backbone grade CRS-1
. That's not exactly peanuts. Or was it a $250,000 optical line card? I’m not a big Cisco guy these days, but it’s some gobsmacking expensive gear that you can’t buy at the Big Box store, much less get a decent-sized phone company to support.
You also need "dark" fibre between two points to bring everything up, so existing fibre infrastructures won’t work well with the stunt. Forget this coming to your neighborhood anytime soon unless your name is Gates or Buffet or someone else on the Fortune billionaire’s list.
Network geeks like me reckon the real value to this stunt is that phone companies could flush a whole layer of their legacy infrastructure on the backbone side while gaining higher network speeds, skipping over 10 Gbps backbone links and going straight to 40 Gbps. No dorking around with OC-whatever protocols required.
The demonstration also points out the value of fibre in the ground and to the home and buildings when compared to copper or cable and the patchwork of solutions needed to rev up the speeds of both for delivery of high speed data, with HDTV being the highest-speed type of data people want these days.
For real-world, large scale deployments to the home, Verizon’s FiOS plant currently has the most underestimated potential for high-speed consumer broadband delivery. Verizon hasn’t been shy in highlighting its GPON technology. The company thinks it can deliver symmetrical data speeds between 50 to 100 Mbps, plus a whole wavelength of light just dedicated to video. Put another way, it has three wavelengths of light, one that has the total data carrying capacity of what a cable company has on their cable.
But, Verizon’s worst enemy may be its own conservative don’t-push-the-envelope-too-much mindset, offering just enough bandwidth to compete with the existing cable broadband offering. So some regions may get 35 Mbps, others may have 50 Mbps, and still others may get as much as 100 Mbps, all depending on how fast and aggressive the local cable company has their speed dialed up.
The Verizon engineering guys say their GPON gear can be dialed up to 200 Mbps symmetrical bandwidth with no hardware changes and they could do so upon market support and market demand. This is the cable company killer app, since the cable companies are just starting to get around to DOCSYS 3.0 and the potential for 200 Mbps speed.
By the cable people start seriously deploying DOCSYS 3.0, Verizon will likely move out of GPON in, of course, the selected markets deploying DOCSYS 3.0, and move up to either WDM-PON or 10GB-PON or whatever is the best cost and most cost-effective alternatives. It’s premature to say exactly what speeds the end user at home would get, but 1GBps or faster to the home would be likely, assuming all that expensive 40GBps to 100GBps backbone gear is up to support everything. [Aren't you just jealous of the Swedish mum, Doug? Ed.] µ |
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| FunkyCrew |
| my parents (in Ukraine) recently doubled their speed, so they have about the same speed as I do (high speed with Rogers), and pay about USD7/month flat rate.. |
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| malek |
| actually a friend of mine is testing a fiber optic connection at her home for Bell, she tells me its super fast and it cost her 30$ a month. |
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| Cro_Addict |
one thing i also hate is the ing LIMIT!
in Windsor I am with MNSI - no limit! all these other companies max out ur bandwidth ... its soo gay |
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by dEsidEL
this is tru .. altho if you compare Ontario to say Finland, population density is somewhat comparable, i.e. 13.93/km² to 16/km²
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If you take actual livable area and divide by population - Finland is much more dense. |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
actually a friend of mine is testing a fiber optic connection at her home for Bell, she tells me its super fast and it cost her 30$ a month. |
Yeah as an intro rate! $70, or $100 per month after the initial offer.
I am switching away from bell for my internet. After they threatened to cap all their customers, after going back on their word, I have had enough of them and their inflated prices.
Acanac $25/month, taxes, rentals fees in. |
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
Yeah as an intro rate! $70, or $100 per month after the initial offer.
I am switching away from bell for my internet. After they threatened to cap all their customers, after going back on their word, I have had enough of them and their inflated prices.
Acanac $25/month, taxes, rentals fees in. |
Teksavvy dude. best customer service out there. |
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