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> the Internet is still a global patchwork built on top of a century-old telephone system. No, it's not.
by di 10y ago
> the Internet is still a global patchwork built on top of a century-old telephone system.
No, it's not.
- snw 10y agoit is in germany.
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- runeks 10y agoAnd Denmark. Of course, the core internet nodes are not connected by old phone lines, but most of the edge nodes (consumers) are.
- Symbiote 10y agoMost edge nodes in Denmark (6.6 million) are mobile phones, 2.4M are fixed lines. Worldwide, DSL is less than half of all fixed lines. Denmark has decent fibre networks, and cable TV, but i haven't found any numbers for usage. Statistics from http://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/oecdbroadbandportal.htm http://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/oecdbroadbandportal.htm
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- k__ 10y agoWhat about the cable networks? Unity Media advertises fiber connections.
- PebblesHD 10y agoAustralias newest, most high-end infrastructure for internet access, the NBN, is based on a mix of 100 year old Telstra copper for last mile (in reality last 4 or 5 mile) connections, 40 year old HFC cable if you're lucky, and if you happened to be really lucky and in an opposition party area when it was originally planned, a little bit of fibre in neighbourhoods. Its an abysmal abuse of the phrase 'cost-savings' as its crippling any attempt to introduce new, more advanced services that need more than about 20mbit continuously...