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Re:Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network by Alaskan005 on Friday December 14, 2012 @01:32AM (#4919883)
In 5-10 years maybe. Now virtually all sites are slower than a ~ 10-50 mbs connection so having all that extra bandwidth doesn't help you at all. That's the reality.
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Re:Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network by bcbrown on Friday December 14, 2012 @02:05AM (#4919944)
The Internet is more than the World Wide Web.
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Re:Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network by Alaskan005 on Friday December 14, 2012 @02:07AM (#4919950)
For what % of people? We should assume that bigger pipes cost more money, at least they do now, so why should Jack and Jill pay for 1Gig/s when a 5-10-20 mbps is more they need? Cable seems to have no problem bringing movies through the old copper wires.
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Re:Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network by illuminate on Friday December 14, 2012 @10:13AM (#4921256)
"We should assume that bigger pipes cost more money"

Why? The cost for running the fiber has already been paid.

"Cable seems to have no problem bringing movies through the old copper wires."

What companies choose to charge for old copper is irrelevant to how much of a profit one can make off of newer cable drops.

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Re:Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network by Alaskan005 on Friday December 14, 2012 @01:20PM (#4922320)
"Why? The cost for running the fiber has already been paid."

Not every mile is owned by one company, the internet is a series of tubes

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Re:Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network by illuminate on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @02:00PM (#4944094)
This is true! However costs over the years have plummeted for those uplinks and the reduction in costs have not been passed on to the consumer through much lower priced service.
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