Not quite. VDSL2 will nominally do 300 Mbps. Actual 100 Mbps service isn't uncommon.
The successor, G.fast, will nominally do a gig, but about 500 Mbps over short loops.
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The successor, G.fast, will nominally do a gig, but about 500 Mbps over short loops.
In fact those that oppose network neutrality will use this very argument to assert that network neutrality should be repealed and all efforts should be made to advance competition and investment instead.
Too bad that when it comes to actually enabling that competition there's a deafening silence.
Demand is also limited. Not a great combination, so your vision on multiple low cost satellite service providers isn't likely to come true.
There are only a few satellite owners you can buy broadband service from, not a 100. It's capital intensive and past bankruptcies don't bode well for new entrants.
Satellites can and do run satellite to satellite comms, a "mesh" if you like, but it increases latency.
Neither are balloons likely to be a viable long term solution.
I will concede that including discounts make things tricky, even if they are an integral part of the market, but by what measure should MVNOs be overlooked? Unlike in the US, MVNOs in other countries generally have the same access to the network as the MVO service arm.
The fact remains that in Finland you can get a real uncapped and unlimited 4G plan for about twenty bucks. Everything unlimited for under thirty. And capped 4G plans for under ten bucks.
By what measure does the US come even close?
EDIT: for clarification the above prices are all list prices from MVOs, with the exception of the everything unlimited which is from an MVNO. The equivalent MVO plans are a few euro more.
What point are you trying to make, other than picking random plans?
Anyway the cheapest list price for unlimited text, talk and data is from Globetel at 22,85€. https://globetel.fi/liittymät
However, nobody pays list prices, there are always specials as the cell phone companies battle each other for market share. The cheapest offer for unlimited and uncapped 4G is currently 2,90€ per month.
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The answer is people. You need people to "provide a route to the Internet". To answer phones. To fix things when they break.
Running an ISP is far from glamorous and far from just leaning back and skimming the profit.
Fiber has its place, as has wireless.
If you are worried about the governed not keeping up, let the government put in the fiber and have somebody else light it.
You are also not going to be deploying your own balloon Internet.
It's very, very unlikely to come back.
Yes.
> If so, then wouldn't an analog signal amp such as this simply amplify the noise along with the signal?
Yes. That's why there are limits on the reach of amplified networks.
> Decoding and re-encoding would have the effect of 'cleaning' the signal in this case.
Yes, but regenerating the signal introduces complexity, and thus reduces reliability, adds latency and only works for a specific encoding, which makes upgrades impossible. None of these things are wanted at the bottom of the sea for the next 25 years.
> If it does get noisy, where does the noise come from?
There are lots of noise sources. See: http://www.svphotonics.com/pub/pub029.pdf
> The medium?
Yes, partly.
> Leakage from outside the cable?
No. Although vibrations can cause noise.
No, all long haul subsea fiber optic cables use all optical amplifiers. They are just colloquially called repeaters.
No, it does.
> Surely it can't go round any bend, then, though?
No, if you bend the fiber too much the light leaks out into the cladding.