 tschmidtPremium,MVM
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Re: upload speeds are a joke ISP's wide Cable DOCSIS and Telco DSL were designed based on a passive consumption model. There were engineering and business reasons for the trade-off.
As Internet matures part of its promise is a more egalitarian communication model where there are many, rather then a privileged few, content providers. That is why I prefer term First-Mile rather then Last-Mile to describe customer access network. That change is putting severe strain on broadband business model used by most ISPs.
FTTP, like Verizon's FIOS, is the only real long term solution to deliver massive bandwidth to support both video libraries and large scale content creation and telecommuting.
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