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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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(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.