1Gbps Broadband Service for Hong Kong

Limax Maximus writes "Hong Kong is planning to launch a 1Gbps broadband home service. Although the idea of using shared infrastructure is nothing new for TV/phone/data this appears to be the first to do this over IP at such high speed. The cost is high - 215 USD a month. Per megabit, however, this is a very cheap service. This kind of solution only really works in town blocks where cat5 cabling is a realistic option."

Comments

Re:Can neighbors share/resell.

[grolschie]

Well it will be as soon as someone installs a WiFi AP without changing the default settings. ;-)

Re:Faster, but for what?

[Libor Vanek]

Yeah - that's the trick! Almost nobody will use full 1 Gbps capacity BUT it sounds cool to have it :-)

Conquer Taiwan

[AtariAmarok]

If China wants to add Taiwan to its territory, why not entice them with offers of free or cheap broadband? This is sure to win more hearts than the current line which is "We'll bomb you to bits and kill you all if you acknowledge the obvious fact that you've been an independent country for 50 years."

Re:Conquer Taiwan

[0x461FAB0BD7D2]

Why doesn't China entice Taiwanese with special offers?

Because the Taiwanese block spam from China too.

Re:Conquer Taiwan

[AtariAmarok]

"Why doesn't China entice Taiwanese with special offers? Because the Taiwanese block spam from China too."

Which leaves those Taiwanese to shake their heads in envy as they look across the Straights of Formosa to China, where they see the men standing on the shore taunting them by waving their prodigious giant penises and making 1/2 km jumps with their super HGH-herb-enhanced powers. They say to themselves "See? If we could get Chinese spam, we'd be just like that!"

Re:Conquer Taiwan

[Anonymous Coward]

' China, where they see the men standing on the shore taunting them by waving their prodigious giant penises '

In Chinese terms, that's 5 inches.

A communist sandbox?

[AtariAmarok]

"Hong-kong has been kept in a sort of Capitalist sand-box in many ways "

Is that the opposite of a Communist Sandbox? Remember the old joke: "What do you get if you bring communism to the Sahara Desert? Well, at first, nothing. Then, after 10 years, you get a shortage of sand."

Re:Ok, since people insist America isn't "behind"

[FidelCatsro]

Ofcourse ,You need to stop complaining now as the people of Peru are far worse off than you and they shouldnt complain as the people of Papua new guinea are worse off than them and.... so the beat goes on

Re:what for ...?

[JamesTRexx]

Oh come on... This is /., we all know that stack of Playboys under your bed is just an offline backup in case your internet connection fails.

Re:Ok, since people insist America isn't "behind"

[lskutt]

I don't "get it". How does "not having anything in the first place" make it cheaper and easier?

One word: Politics.

Government, Corporate, Local... It's all the same in that aspect -- it slows everything the hell down.

Capitalist sandbox

[AtariAmarok]

Thanks for the insight. The Capitalist version of it probably ends with "...and then you find you can't do anything because someone has patented sand dunes."

Re:what for ...?

[stoborrobots]

so again ... what for??

So that the SO can watch her soppy movie on the bigscreen in the bedroom, while I watch the fuzeball in the computer-room while downloading Service Pack 2 and still get good enough pings to play HL2 at the same time?

(Note: the above is a simulation; none of those apply to me... I am single, hate football, don't do Windows, and don't play PC games... so if I messed something up, please substitute the nearest applicable idea.)

Going to college in HK...

[niteice]

I'm moving to Hong Kong to study:

1) Software, music, and game piracy
2) The human female anatomy
3) Human sexual intercourse

Re:Firewall of China?

[0x461FAB0BD7D2]

cHina is not monitoring mE. if you think that, you reaLly need to see a Psychiatrist imMEdiately.