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fractenna
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Re: What is the NEXT BIG THING coming to Canadian broadband in your opinion?

THE NEXT BIG THING is a super secretive project currently being tested cooperatively by all the incumbents, internally coined by the working group as the carrier pigeon based streaming initiative, and it is already on its way to our neighborhoods.

In all seriousness, I would be glad if something like a minimum of unfiltered 20/10 Mbps was set as an universal right for all Canadians with a rate that is pegged to the the true average cost of transferring 1 GB.
despe666
join:2009-06-20
Montreal, QC

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said by fractenna :

THE NEXT BIG THING is a super secretive project currently being tested cooperatively by all the incumbents, internally coined by the working group as the carrier pigeon based streaming initiative, and it is already on its way to our neighborhoods.

You laugh, but strap as many 64 gb microSD cards as you can on a pigeon, and you've got yourself quite a bit of bandwidth especially over sort distances!
Walter Dnes
join:2008-01-27
Thornhill, ON

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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
—Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1989). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 57. ISBN 0-13-166836-6.

And it was an old joke back then. See the story about JPL at »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sn ··· -fiction