Archive for December 15th, 2008

Super Fast Connection!

I was just reading a report that the cable company Virgin Media is the first Internet provider to roll out a super-fast broadband service in Britain. The connection speed will be around 50 megabits per second, which is super-fast. And what makes this new service so great is it will be offered to a mass amount of people on the network. And Virgin Media will be offering this service by mid 2009 to more than 12 million homes. So far their fiber connections to the Internet are the fastest and will be for years to come. No one is even close to the speed they just launch in the area. If your wondering what the average speed right now in Britain is, it’s 4 to 5 megabits per second. So you can see why this is such a big deal around the world. People want to be connected faster and faster and are willing to pay for that speed. There will be no way Internet Providers will ever be able to keep up with what we want; it’s not possible.

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