said by yyzlhr:This company is deploying the same thing that Bell and Verizon are doing. The only thing that is different is that there are no speed policies set by the ISP on individual customers, which isn't necessarily a good thing either.
Ya, they have not found some magic new technology but are delivering an advanced service for a really good price. Bell and Rogers are equally capable of making a similar splash if they chose but that would just raise expectations. Follow-up would be a bitch.
Without committing to specific service levels for streaming video and telephony the whole faster access is better mentality just doesn't register. With current internet infrastructure the value of faster access diminishes, for me, at about 25M - 50M down. Others may value higher access speeds but you gotta admit that sometimes it doesn't really give much for the extra cost.
Of course I don't think service commitments are possible without also compromising net neutrality. Maybe if the entire net starts operating at multi-terabit speeds we won't see endless jitter, stuttering, and buffering messages when streaming HD. The quality is sooo close but just off a little don't ya think? Making the access network scream but without service level agreements is like meh.