100Mbps Home Internet Service Next Year in Finland

Listen Up writes "According to an article on CNN, broadband Internet access via cable modems in Finland will be able to hit 100 Mbps as early as 2006. That would be 50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes in Finland. Do you think this technology has the possibility of reaching U.S. shores? Or do you think the already deeply entrenched U.S. politics are going to keep this technology from ever reaching us? There are already thousands and thousands of miles of 'dark fiber' underground around the U.S."

Comments

4Mbps ought to be enough for everybody

[rmadhuram]

I already get 4Mbps downstream from Time Warner of San Diego and it is plenty!

Possibility of reaching U.S. shores?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think any cat5e can reach that long.

Dark fiber...

[Faust7]

There are already thousands and thousands of miles of 'dark fiber' underground around the U.S.

So that's where all the dark matter is.

Obligatory Monty Python

[wootest]

Finland, Finland, Finland
The country where I want to be

Re:Obligatory Monty Python

[MindNumbingOblivion]

Look! He's pining!

Becuase....

[d2_m_viant]

....becuase we're talking about people who wear clogs getting more internet sex than US!

Re:why is this news?

[temojen]

We're pinin' for the fjords?

Re:What is the upload speed

[Tod DeBie]

300 baud?

Re:Nice!

[ChrisZermatt]

I'd like to live there for the *very* hot women -- fast internet isn't going to make me move anywhere!