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2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes
Erick Lionheart at www.gamersloot.net writes "Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are offering 2.5 Gb/s Internet connections to select cities in the Paris region. For ... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): 'The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.'"
LET THE TORRENTS BEGIN
Oh the sweet, sweet pr0n! Holy crap, I wish I lived in France!
Wait, did I just say what I think I said...?
THE FRENCH....the french have more bandwidth. Its just not right I tell you. I want fiber to the home. Oh and I want a cooler cell phone like the Japanese. How come the terrorist are after us. All we have is crappy phones that have been out for like a year or more other places and a few Mb of bandwidth.
And what, in 40 seconds you've hit your monthly cap?
Seriously though, it' s trade-off. We could have this sort of thing in parts of North America, but it would require consumers and gov't to stop moaning and griping about where telecos and cablecos pick to choose their deployments. Cherry-picking, if you will.
Because in case you didn't notice, all these Asian and European plans that seem so fast (and than always get everyone green with envy) always have the disclaimer "in select areas/markets" on them. Which means "deployed to a very few affluent areas that can likely afford it", a concept which seems to go over OK in Asia and Europe, but not so OK in North America.
Finally, a real reason to hate the French.
"The ferrets, they're every where I tell you!"
Good to see telco PRs have now infiltrated slashdot.
In the spirit of world communication and harmony, we should all adopt this French model.
French models usually aren't tech saavy, but this one is.
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They must have some big trucks, um, tubes that is in France!
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But...It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
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The French can figure this shit out, why can't you?
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Porn. They're French - they don't look at their wives; they look at everybody else's wives.
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So, at worst, assuming 64 endpoints and a GbE line from the multiplexer, I get 16 Mbit downstream and 8 Mbit upstream? And, at best, at home, I get 768 Kbit down and 128 Kbit up? Plus TV, which I don't currently get. For the same price? Sounds pretty damn good to me.
... ooooh, 2.5Gb/s for freedom homes!
I'm English - I've always thought that quite a lot of what's written here isn't.