RE: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

["A MEKKAOUI" <amekkaoui () mektel ca>]

Your right. Actually, Bell knows that home does not need that much BW, Bell size their network for much less than that. 
However, from a marketing perspective, when Bell says to a client I am offering you 1G at $100 and competition are 
offering you 30M at $60, some clients likes that because they ignore that 1G will not make a difference compared to 30M.

Also Bell is currently using ADSL technology to provide internet service which is a dead technology. So, Bell has no 
choice but to move to fiber if they want to stay on the market.

KARIM M.


-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Rafael Possamai
Sent: 26 juin 2015 14:39
To: Eric Dugas
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. Similar to the concept of 
price elasticity in economics, going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your average transfer rate, at 
least I don't think it would for me. Anyone care to comment? Just really curious, as to me it's more of a marketing 
push than anything else, even though gigabit to the home sounds really cool.



On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Eric Dugas <EDugas () zerofail com> wrote:

> Nice try Bell.. So-Net did it two years ago, 2Gbps FTTH in Japan.
>
> Article: http://bgr.com/2013/06/13/so-net-nuro-2gbps-fiber-service/
>
> If you read Japanese: http://www.nuro.jp/hikari/
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Hank Disuko
> Sent: June 26, 2015 2:04 PM
> To: NANOG
> Subject: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland
>
> Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of 
> Toronto with the World's Fastest Internet™.
>
> http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-t
> oronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html