[BC] My prediction for the future

[Cowboy]

On Friday 08 July 2005 22:33, Clive Warner wrote:

> Certainly 2Mb/s is available over copper; to go much faster than that will
> involve extending fibre to the consumer's residence, feasible in urban and
> suburban areas.
> My own bandwidth recently doubled from 256 to 512, for free. Why is the
> telecomm company doing that? At the very least it implies that they have
> bandwidth to throw around costing virtually nothing.

 When the copper was tested to my house, it passed with no errors at 8Mb/s.
 I'll submit that much, much higher is possible, especially with errors, over the
 existing copper, should one wish to persue this course, dominated by
 government sanctioned monopolies.