With the goal to push for faster broadband speed for all Americans, FCC has submitted the National Broadband Plan to congress. The plan suggests American residents should be able to download at 100 Mbps and upload at 50 Mbps. How much the Internet service providers will charge for such speed?
As of now, getting 6 Mbps or a little higher for download speed has already cost each of us somewhere $40 to $50. The thought of paying $100 for the broadband speed that the FCC suggests would not be so enticing. In fact, not too many people want to even think about such a price. The Internet service providers would have to lower the price for theirs current plans a whole lot down or forgo their current broadband plans completely before rolling out the super fast broadband speed that the FCC has in mind.
The plan is out, but the implementation is not going to happen right away. Obviously, the governmental approval process is a bureaucratic one which will be long, and then it will take much longer for the Internet service providers to accommodate FCC’s plan. How many years before Americans see super fast broadband speed? Will anyone want to take a wild guess at that?
American people are going to be super innovative when they have faster broadband speed! Imagine any average Joe, young or old, and even younger or older, they all could start to host their own web servers, databases, and so on at home. Electricity consumption for average household will skyrocket. That would be good for the electric company! Data transfer won’t be a problem for viewing crystal clear Internet videos using High Definition technology. YouTube won’t be having problem of airing tons of HD videos! Video games through Internet might get even better as game developers fear less about data compression and more about contents and graphic qualities. Small home businesses will be able to transact and transfer data with ease as bits travel throughout the digital realm much faster. You name it, faster the better!
In conclusion, even faster broadband speed changes little, at least we Americans may be able to brag that we aren’t so far behind from those other countries who have been using super fast broadband speeds, and we’ve only suggested about the implementation of a faster broadband speed that have been the standards for many countries for quite some time already. What can you do with faster, super fast broadband speed? Source.
Not only Google wants a faster America when it comes to broadband, because Cisco does too. It seems as if Google is competing against AT&T, Verizon, and others when it announces that it is building 1Gbps broadband network for consumers, but in my opinion, Google wants to see a faster broadband standard in America. Why? Google is all about the Internet, and a faster Internet could help Google in the long run. Imagine Google could deliver more bandwidth intensive programs over its YouTube such as HD videos, other futuristic applications, and so on.
Cisco is a little different although it’s announcing that 1Gbps broadband network for consumers is also in the work. It seems Cisco wants to provide the 1Gbps broadband capability to its business customers such as AT&T, Verizon, and others. This makes Cisco not a competitor to the major Internet Service Providers, but as a friend. In Google case, it does make Google appears as a competitor to the Internet Service Providers.
Nonetheless, whatever the case, it’s about time that the American people get to experience a faster America in term of broadband. Although it’s not important as the health care topic which has caused ripples throughout America, broadband is still important since it’s powering businesses and homes and creativities and innovations. For your information, America is way behind in broadband speed when America is compared against Europe and Japan. Source.
Folks, I’ve to tell you that this is probably one of those exciting news that I drool over! Google is announcing that it is experimenting in building an ISP service which advertises a 1 gigabit per second Internet connection speed. With this news I surmise that Google is planning something much bigger to come, and it has to do with using huge amount of bandwidth. Anything that makes the web more exciting is a good news for Google since it relies on web users and online ad consumers. Starting out, Google is going to use fiber network to deliver Internet connection to not more than 500,000 people. What you think about Google as an ISP? 1 gigabit per second is what I want, what about you?
OK, finally I could see why iPad is appealing to me! It’s all about the broadband connection really! It seems that with iPad you only have to pay around $29.99 per month to get unlimited Internet connection with no contract through AT&T. This means it’s much better than most Internet connection plan that you could get for your laptop and netbook. iPad is smaller in size when comparing to most laptop, and so it’s a perfect device to replace laptop when you’re on the go. Obviously, laptop could be more powerful than iPad and less powerful than desktop, this is why Steve Jobs didn’t mind saying iPad is here not to replace anything but only filling in the gap between laptop and smart phones (I think that’s what he said)! Wouldn’t mind buying iPad if the price drops a little more. Patience is virtue!
iPhone users who have been complaining about bad 3G connection may have something to be happy about since AT&T has just announced that it will spend about $2 billion more than usual to improve its network’s capability in handling data for iPhone and iPad. Everyone knew that this would have to come sooner or later, but it’s a great news for iPhone users that AT&T had decided that it has to be done now. It seems AT&T is going to work on this homework right away, because 2010 won’t wait — especially per chance iPad gets popular, AT&T will have a huge network problem! Does this mean AT&T will also improve regular broadband network where home users could see faster broadband speed? I’m not sure about this, but I’m crossing my fingers for this too! Faster download and upload for home Internet connection, who wouldn’t want it right? Source.
The world is embracing the Internet and a faster connection to the web, but the United States seems to not care about faster broadband speed and how spread broadband has in America as much as the rest of the world. Congress has decided that they need to know why so they can come up with a solution to advance the country forward in broadband. Congress demands FCC to do something about the broadband diffusion by February.
FCC is astonishing to find out that 33 percent of Americans who are equipping with broadband capability choose not to have broadband. Broadband is not that expensive anymore, and yet people are not willing to pay for it. You can say that older people may prefer not to use broadband since it’s a lot more complicate than turning on a TV. Then again that is a groundless statement since there is little study has ever looked deeper into this question.
The question is why some of the authorities and experts and average people like us want the whole country to be broadband-connected? What’s the urgency? The obvious answer I could think up — broadband promotes faster communication which also means faster transaction for everything which also means there is money to be made and to go around. I guess you can call this as something as broadband economy. Who would have thought that search engine like Google could dominate advertising industry in a way that off-line advertising industry had to be panicked. Broadband made and still is making Google billions of dollar. Broadband is sure can seed new type of businesses and innovations and new technology and stronger economy as we all be more broadband-connected. Source.
I’m an AT&T customer, and so far I have no problem with their DSL service. Sadly, through a leaflet in my mailbox, I saw Comcast offers a moderate fast download speed up to 12 Mbps (double DSL speed), and you can also get the insanely fast download speed of 50 Mbps. At the same time, Comcast is also offering High-Speed 2go Mobile Broadband service so you can access the fastest wireless service when you out of the house.
It isn’t clear that for a download speed of 12 Mbps with High-Speed 2go Mobile Broadband is $49.99 per month (with a contract of 12 months), or it’s that a download speed of 50 Mbps with High-Speed 2go Mobile Broadband is $49.99 per month (with a contract of 12 months). I have to call Comcast up to confirm about the service prices, but even if it’s only 12 Mbps is at $49.99/month, it’s still way faster than my AT&T’s DSL, and the prices for Internet Service of both companies are roughly equal.
I heard a lot of bad things about Comcast, of how they throttle your Internet’s downloads, of how they have bandwidth limitation, and so I’m very cautious about Comcast. If Comcast throws away the contract and allow its customers to pay monthly without contract, then I may think about switching. For now, I’m going to wait for awhile, read some more point of views on the web, and wait until Comcast throws away its contract paid model. Let hope AT&T is ready to compete against Comcast by offering faster speed, then I don’t have to go through the trouble of switching my Internet Service.
About three months ago, I posted a blog post about Google bought On2. That purchased that Google made is in line with its current intention. Google is going high definition by bringing high definition capability to YouTube. High definition will be really slow over current Internet Connection’s speeds from U.S. Internet Service Providers. Let hope On2′s technology will be able to help speed up YouTube’s high definition video over the current Internet Connection’s speeds. Google is hoping that ISP companies will be able to provide faster speeds for the Internet Connection, but ISP companies prefer to take ages to advance — unlike U.S., Japan and some foreign countries are providing unheard Internet Connection’s speeds that could easily handle high definition videos. Source.
A study finds that only nine countries with broadband connections that are ready for the future broadband applications such as watching HD videos. Unfortunately, United States is not one of those countries, instead United States is in the list of countries that are comfortable for today broadband applications and demands. The study suggests that to be ready for future broadband applications and demands, the broadband connection needs to be around 11.25Mbps for download and 5Mbps for upload. Forget about that suggestion from the study, South Korea is promising its people 1Gbps by 2012. Can United States stay at the top of the game when come to technology considering that its broadband connection is not yet ready to meet the future demands? The nine countries that are ready for the future broadband applications and demands are South Korea, Japan, Sweden, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania, and Denmark.
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