said by davegravy :said by bt:But having it on consumer-grade internet is not an actual necessity. Not even close.
Depends on your definition of necessity. Again, on the extreme end, the entire internet could be argued to be not a necessity.
Fact is, it's technologically, and economically feasible to offer this, as evidenced by other nations, SO GIVE IT TO US.
I want to live in a nation that finds innovative uses for things we have but don't "need". Not a nation that points to other nations and says "look what they discovered they can do with this technology... I wish we had that!"
That depends on what you mean feasible. As along as copper is used to get inside homes, residential internet connections will always be highly asymmetrical. And that's simply just because of how DSL and Cable were designed in the 1990s.
That doens't of course higher speeds aren't possible, blanket rolling to 10Mbps upload out should be the short term goal for now. It's going to be a long time before the majority homes have a fibre run into them.
