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02/06/2008, 5:00pm, EST
Wednesday, February 6thQuebec company tests 30, 50Mbps Internet
A company in the Canadian province of Quebec will soon match Verizon in deploying some of the fastest consumer Internet access in North America, according to reports. Cable supplier Videotron is preparing to debut two "Ultimate Speed Internet" plans, capable of downloads at 30 and 50Mbps, respectively. This is an upgrade on the company's current top tier of 20Mbps, and takes advantage of pre-DOCSIS 3.0 technology. The plans will cost $65 and $80 CAD per month.
Unlike Verizon's equivalent FiOS service however, the Videotron technology will have several drawbacks. First is a maximum upload speed of 1Mbps, due to a lack of upstream channel bonding. The initial deployment will also be restricted to just 112,000 homes in Laval, when the province's total population is over 7.7 million. Finally, caps of 30 and 50GB per month (including uploads) are being put in place, with an overage charge of $1.50 per GB. The sheer bandwidth of Ultimate Speed could make it possible to exceed each cap in a matter of days, if not hours. [via Broadband Reports]
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Other story tags: Verizon, Canada, cable, Videotron, DOCSIS 3.0
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As a Canadian do you know what the word "socialist" means? I guess you can't recall what the former President Roosevelt did while he was in office. The policies he introduced can be considered considered Socialist!
Roosevelt campaigned for direct government by the people, secret ballots, recall elections, initiatives, public knowledge of campaign contributions, minimum wage for women, prohibition of child labor, workers compensation, social health insurance, and pensions for the elderly.
Wake up...you are living in a Fascist country and you can thank Bush for that.
Cheers.
CrazyCanuck
Hint: the United States is nowhere close to that, and you don't have to like or hate Bush to know that. But hey, throwing around incendiary hyperbole (not to mention calling Roosevelt remotely anything that resembles a Socialist in the traditional sense for simply having some "progressive" social policy) makes you just as ignorant as the idiot to whom you were responding.
Congratulations.
God I hate when people talk politics in the comments of MacNN stories, and now I'm doing it myself. :-(
Damn FDR! He just ruined this country (except for helping repeal that prohibition amendment). When you see all these kids wasting their time in schools when they could be doing something productive....