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|  | | | | Re: Sigh...What next? All broadband may be internet but not all internet need be provided by broadband. This being said broadband is not a right, because if you truly NEED internet there is still dialup, whether it is fast or not is not the point but you don't have to have broadband to live. The idea that we are considering a service (a premium one at that) a RIGHT is unbelievably absurd. | |
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| Spaniard with 1 Mbps here.
In reply to L00ker, I consider that, in this time and age, 1 Mbps is the absolute bare minimum acceptable. The times of dial-up are gone (not long ago, but they're gone).
Having said that, here in Spain we have a peculiar case --I think. Until the mid-nineties, the only phone provider was government-owned Telefonica. Then, there was a privatization process and more telcos came with cheaper offers, but still using Telefonica's hardware on lease. Then, some telcos started spreading their own copper and/or fiber. They started in big cities, of course. This process is still ongoing. Where I live now, I have 1 Mbps because it's not profitable for companies to invest and give me and my few neighbors more speed. Just 3 Kilometers away, near downtown (downvillage, really) things are different. You can get 1, 3 or 6 Mbps with the DSL provided by Telefonica and by companies who lease those lines. Furthermore, there's a regional telco who dug their own brand new fiber. They offer ADSL Internet, phone, and TV. So you see, just 3 Km away things are different.
In big cities, there are even more telcos and, therefore, more choices. Some telcos offer "up to" 20 Mbps ADSL --the quotes make all the difference  -- Most recent adverts I've seen, focus on 12 real Mbps.
Notice that I mention ADSL. Here, most DSLs are asymmetrical, highly asymmetrical. Hell! Even the fiber connections are ridiculously asymmetrical.
Oh, and Internet is hellishly expensive here. Although, again, prices vary wildly according to where you live --from 9 EUR to 44 EUR. | |
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| said by Duramax08:Pickles are not a utility. Electricity and water is a utility. Soon broadband will eventually be a utility. Example, When you move into a new house the first things you call is electricity to have light, Water to take a bath and most likely internet if you surf the net on a daily basis which alot of people do these days to connect with other people. Time will only tell.... Not a bad try...however, broadband is by no means a "utility", at least not at this point in time. That would be akin to stating that cable t.v. is a utlility...which would be closer to the truth, and even that is not so.
Further, while water and electric indeed are utilities, they are not "rights"...and if you build a house in a location that has no utility poles...guess what? The generous taxpayers (govt.) do not foot the bill, you the home-owner in many cases must pay for the utility company to install poles/power-lines to your home! Hardly a "right"...
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