Tag Archive for ‘Internet speed’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Internet speed'

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Poor broadband performance causes New Zealand government to break up dominant teleco

on September 27, 2007

The break up of AT&T in 1984 led to a seismic shift in telecom policy and regulatory thinking worldwide and also created the conditions for the Internet boom. New Zealand is a small country quite unlike the US, but it has taken an unprecedented step that has the potential of changing policy and regulatory thinking again. As the excerpt below says, the split is on the lines of the BT reorganization in the UK. That is true. But the key difference is that BT reorganized voluntarily and NZ Telecom, not.

If I were managing an incumbent telco, claiming dominance in various markets and providing poor broadband service, the NZ decision will give me nightmares; but more than that, it will cause me to seriously consider BT…

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Tags: AT&T, British Telecom, Broadband, broadband Internet, BT Group, David Cunliffe, faster and cheaper Internet services, Internet boom, Internet Service Providers, Internet speed, New Zealand, New Zealand government, NZ Telecom, Paul Reynolds, retail, retail arm, United Kingdom, United States.

Something a little more interesting than a phone call from the top of Everest

Rohan Samarajiva

on July 22, 2007

Swedish Woman Gets Superfast Internet - New York Times

In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer — many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.

Jonsson and Lothberg’s son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.

The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said.

”We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed,” he said.

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Tags: Everest, Hafsteinn Jonsson, Internet speed, Karlstad, Peter, Swedish Woman Gets Superfast Internet - New York Times, two routers.

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