High Speed Internet – Is it necessary?
We want more speed and it is never enough. We want faster broadband speed that can load pages in a fraction of the second or download a file in a blink of an eye. Ok I want whatever is said above.
In Singapore, the government announced a major initiative to make the entire nation connected via Fibre Optic cable. This is called the Next Generation National Broadband Network(Next Gen NBN). It is also referenced as Fibre to the Home(FTTH). We could achieve speeds up to 1Gbps.
Opennet is contracted to do cable laying works and it has begun early this year and about 15% has been connected and 60% expected completion by end of 2010. 95% should be expected to completed by 2012.
Full service is expected to be available from 2012 and provided by our regular ISPs like Singtel, Starhub, PacNet and M1.
Why the Need?
This may seem negative to some but I am trying to make some sense here. The money spent on upgrading could be spent on something else.
I will quote from my friend:
What we need is uncongested international bandwidth during peak hours and better technical QOS, not local high speed. Huge % of internet users surf out of Singapore for God’s sake. With crazy price wars, ISPs will not buy more from their up streams to feed more than monkey for those who pay peanut. Also, FTTH is only good for sharing pr0n locally or local video conferencing where i look at you and vice versa then what next? Gotta get real. There is NO major content provider in Singapore yet.
My sentiments exactly. Most of us just surf the net. We access emails and social media networks. We access information sites, such as wikipedia. Where are these contents hosted? Overseas. In the U.S to be specific.
Pros
The above was the cons of such a service. But I have to acknowledge a few advantages of higher broadband speed.
- Upload photos to a local website, send them the 10gb file within 10 minutes and they print it. You collect it within the next 4 hours later.
- Watching movies online. Services such as Youtube and vimeo could crop up for local content. Maybe even an online streaming HD content like what is being provided by Singtel Mio TV. Other companies could provide such a service at a competitive price.
- Even local online backup services could crop up.
- Business services like Disaster Recovery or work from home could be reliable and a reality. People can work from home and companies can save office space. You just need a FTTH + VoIP + VPN.
Conclusion
There are so many possibilities, but this will only be a reality if local content is provided. There are costs involved and someone should be willing to invest is such firms.
I have a feeling that it will be used more for pirating. Yes, higher speed will be achievable for torrenting. Yeah, lets share pr0n, music, movies and hacked software.
Am I totally wrong in assuming these? Lets discuss.
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