El Reg reports
Singapore's dominant telco, Singtel, has announced a pilot deployment of 10Gbps broadband to a select group next quarter and says that it expects the blistering fast Internet service to be generally available by the later part of this year.
The high speed connectivity is only possible due to the completion of Singapore's Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN) initiative--a master plan to wire up every corner of the city-state with fibre optics.
[...] 10Gbps services are rare anywhere: telcos in Hong Kong and Korea are experimenting with broadband at these speeds while US Internet offers such a service in Minneapolis. Singtel stepping up and promising commercial services by year's end is therefore globally noteworthy.
Related: US Internet Customers in Minneapolis Get World's Fastest Residential Internet for $400/Month
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The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reports
"The fastest Internet in the world is going to be here in Minneapolis starting this afternoon," said Joe Caldwell, co-CEO of US Internet. "We're talking about a game-changing speed."[1]
The service will cost $400 per month, Caldwell said. The company already offers 1-gigabit-per-second service for $65 per month to the same 30,000 households west of Interstate 35W, and plans to expand its network east of 35W, mostly to neighborhoods south of Lake Street.
[...]By moving eastward with its fiber network's high speeds and lower prices, the upstart US Internet hopes to take business away from Comcast.
[1] 10-gigabits-per-pecond.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:42AM
As I sit here with a broadband sold as 100 Mb/s but lucky to get 100 Kb/s.
Most likely the bandwidth we share in the future will be eaten up similarily by advertiser bandits.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @09:14AM
Yeah, the NBN sucks. Pity. It could have been wonderful. Now the wonder isn't as good as ADSL2+
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @09:19AM
Any chance we could get them to come to Australia to install our new fibre network properly?
(Score: 3, Funny) by kaszz on Tuesday May 26 2015, @10:41AM
You must vote Mr Smith out of office first .. :P
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday May 27 2015, @06:34AM
You realized they are already in Australia. Optus belongs to them. Make your own theories as to why they aren't the ones doing NBN.
Voting Mr. Smith out of office isn't that far off from being modded Funny.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @10:12AM
Time spent downloading is like foreplay.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @03:43PM
Faster Internet can always be slowed down. [fourkitchens.com]
Is that why so many people like throttling in the bedroom?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday May 26 2015, @03:45PM
Until I finish my holodeck prototype, I'm pretty sure i can't handle 10Gb/s of porn. How many 4K screens is that, at 60Hz h.265?
(Score: 2) by tynin on Tuesday May 26 2015, @11:00PM
Clearly, not enough.
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Tuesday May 26 2015, @01:02PM
<sarcasm>Look out Singapore, the Charter/Time Warner merger solve all our problems. Higher speeds and lower costs are a given.</sarcasm>
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 3, Insightful) by acid andy on Tuesday May 26 2015, @05:17PM
"Fair Use" applies?
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:14PM
wah! if the NSA hub of asia is really giving away 10 Gbps internet then they're really getting desperate to please singapore.
(Score: 1) by shipofgold on Tuesday May 26 2015, @10:58PM
Seriously...why do I want 10Gb per second?
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday May 27 2015, @06:46AM
Things that are going through the pipe is increasing in size. Umm.. lets say legal digital content, more UHD devices are appearing and that means higher encoding of these digital contents.
More New things are also being shoved into the pipes. In some countries, their public TV broadcast stations are starting to serve up their programming via the internet to smart TVs in higher definitions with user customizable programming. In some countries, people are moving from fixed land lines to internet based phones (I am one of them). More social apps - for godsake we need to stop!
Maybe none of these are occurring your area, in which case yea you don't need it... do you live in Singapore?
(Score: 2) by forkazoo on Thursday May 28 2015, @10:31PM
Also, really fluid remote desktop takes massive bandwidth since high compression ratios increase latency. Wanna work from home? It doesn't need to suck at 10 Gbit to use your office workstation remotely. Or a machine in the cloud.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by forkazoo on Wednesday May 27 2015, @07:07AM
When you had 9600 bps, why would you want 1 Megabit? More bandwidth is always a good thing, even if you aren't personally creative enough to think of a use for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @06:42PM
I don't have 10Gb ports in any of my computers. And even if I did and had a 10Gb/s connection, I'd be lucky to find servers that would let me download that quickly.
Yes, I'm sure some people will find a use for it, but your average internet user?
(Score: 2) by forkazoo on Thursday May 28 2015, @10:29PM
Well for starters, imagine a big family that all have 1 Gb Ethernet ports in their computers... Also, quite a few people have 10 GbE at this point, and that's only going to increase. Especially since some people will now see justification in paying for the Ethernet upgrade since there is an Internet service that will support it! Infrastructure takes a long time to deploy, so while only a few people can take advantage now, by the time it is fully deployed it won't sound anywhere near as impressive. Unfortunately, you can't just snap your fingers and roll out massive infrastructure projects in one go. It requires planning ahead.