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Hong Kong to offer 1gbps residential service!!!

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Originally posted by: Looney
http://www.convergedigest.com/DSL/lastmilearticle.asp?ID=14545

Hong Kong Broadband Launches 1 Gbps Home Service for US$215/month
Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) officially launched its 1 Gbps symmetric service for the residential market. Approximately 800,000 households, out of a total of 2.2 million households in Hong Kong, are wired to receive the service. The 1 Gbps symmetric service is priced at US$215 per month.

HKBN noted that its 1 Gbps service is up to 166x faster downstream and 1,950x faster upstream than the advertised bandwidth of the incumbent's ADSL service.

HKBN Premium bb1000 service is being offered on the same metro Ethernet infrastructure that delivers the company's Mass Market bb100 (symmetric 100 Mbps for US$34/month) and Entry Point bb10 (symmetric 10 Mbps for US$16/month) services.
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Got that from DSLreports... but that's just unreal if this is true. They could literally get true on-demand media with these kind of speeds.
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WOW that is cheap! How in the world do they provide things so cheap? Is the standard of living much lower? I always thought things were more expensive there...

How can they be so cheap when we are sitting here cheering fo 4mbps for 50 dollars...
 
Originally posted by: magomago
Originally posted by: Looney
http://www.convergedigest.com/DSL/lastmilearticle.asp?ID=14545

Hong Kong Broadband Launches 1 Gbps Home Service for US$215/month
Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) officially launched its 1 Gbps symmetric service for the residential market. Approximately 800,000 households, out of a total of 2.2 million households in Hong Kong, are wired to receive the service. The 1 Gbps symmetric service is priced at US$215 per month.

HKBN noted that its 1 Gbps service is up to 166x faster downstream and 1,950x faster upstream than the advertised bandwidth of the incumbent's ADSL service.

HKBN Premium bb1000 service is being offered on the same metro Ethernet infrastructure that delivers the company's Mass Market bb100 (symmetric 100 Mbps for US$34/month) and Entry Point bb10 (symmetric 10 Mbps for US$16/month) services.
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Got that from DSLreports... but that's just unreal if this is true. They could literally get true on-demand media with these kind of speeds.
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WOW that is cheap! How in the world do they provide things so cheap? Is the standard of living much lower? I always thought things were more expensive there...

How can they be so cheap when we are sitting here cheering fo 4mbps for 50 dollars...
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must be goverment funded. china has a bunch of "public" state companies. my grandparents paid 500(~$60) yuan to set up a boradband connection and have it for as long as they own the apartment without having to pay monthly fees in china.
 
Doesn't Hong Kong retain its own autonomy though? I was thinking that because they are much more of a REAL capitalist example and don't hand out corporate welfare like we do, that companies engage in crazy competition...but yeah thats a good point that perhaps its a Chinese State backed governnment venture...
 
They also already offer 100mpbs... so if you don't want to go with 1gbps (can't afford it or don't need the speed), that's an alternative.
 
Ok, so you've got 1gbps Internet. But what good is it if you're connecting to lots of servers located overseas? Where does the good old problem of diminishing returns set in?
 
Originally posted by: Anonemous
so is that with or without government censorship? just wondering what you could do with 1Gbps...
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you might have a point here....i mean its still china...and what use has a 100/100 line if you cant access sites because the censor ? 🙂
 
You are still behind the great firewall of china, ie all news sites are blocked. Also there really arent that many international backbones that would be able to handle that kind of bandwith.

I envision this internet connection like a giant LAN for hong kong residents, as once you go somewhere else the internet connection will top out much lower. Also you will never get true Gb internet off of 1 pc because of hardware limitations.
 
Originally posted by: Zolty
You are still behind the great firewall of china, ie all news sites are blocked. Also there really arent that many international backbones that would be able to handle that kind of bandwith.

I envision this internet connection like a giant LAN for hong kong residents, as once you go somewhere else the internet connection will top out much lower. Also you will never get true Gb internet off of 1 pc because of hardware limitations.
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WOW! You better let all the Hong Kongers know about this limitation.
 
Originally posted by: Naustica
US is just too darn big and spread out. Plus all that investment in old school infrastructure. Most of these Asian countries like Korea and Japan are tiny and crazy density packed. Plus they've new infrastructure and bypassed lot of the old tech since they had to build from scratch. US will always be second rate country when it comes to wireless and internet connection.
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The geography problem is very real, but it doesn't explain why 3Mbs cable in the New York metro region or other similarly dense areas of the US costs $50 per month or more. In Asia they have huge government investment and/or sponsorship in ways we wouldn't tolerate in the US; and when they deregulate telecoms they do it in a way that forces them into competition instead of simply carving out neat little anticompetitive fiefdoms like we do here at home. There's a reason we've dropped from tops in broadband deployment to thirteenth in just a few short years, and that reason is moronic policymaking, plain and simple.

-hc-
 
Originally posted by: Zolty
You are still behind the great firewall of china, ie all news sites are blocked. Also there really arent that many international backbones that would be able to handle that kind of bandwith.

I envision this internet connection like a giant LAN for hong kong residents, as once you go somewhere else the internet connection will top out much lower. Also you will never get true Gb internet off of 1 pc because of hardware limitations.
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I am from Hong Kong.
Well.. Hong Kong is indeed part of China but it is also a SAR (special adminstrative region) and that includes a different government, different currency, different laws, and freedom of speech.
Therefore, no censorship on internet contents at all.
However, 1gbps of individual bandwidth is non sense because Hong Kong is just a single city and majority of the internet servers are not in Hong Kong. With a giant bandwidth like this the international backbone would definately get everthing jamed.
 
Originally posted by: Looney
.... 1 Gbps Home Service for US$215/month .... for the residential market. Approximately 800,000 households, out of a total of 2.2 million households in Hong Kong, are wired .... The 1 Gbps symmetric service is priced at US$215 per month .... its 1 Gbps service is up to 166x faster downstream and 1,950x faster upstream .....
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Got that from DSLreports... but that's just unreal if this is true. They could literally get true on-demand media with these kind of speeds.
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Most of what's been reported are quite true. And each subscription comes with a fixed IP as well, so the bandwidth could theoretically be shared among a few computers using a gigabit switch.


Caveats:

(1) Its reach of 800k households is quite true, but the installation fee per subscription is HK$6850, which is about US$878;

(2) Only local traffic is able to reach 1Gbps up- and down-stream (the size of Hong Kong is about 1000 sq. km., i.e. about 385 sq. miles);

(3) For traffic in and out of Hong Kong, the max. speed is 100Mbps both ways, and could be down to 20Mbps or less;

(4) It hasn't been reported whether HKBN provides any device(s) with VPN and/or firewall function. If not, then the subscriber would surely find himself in a dilemma;

(4) It's for home user only, and those who've already signed up are, most of them, SOHO professionals, e.g. video editors, 3D graphics / animation designers, etc.
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Originally posted by: Anubis
thats insane, and IMO pointless

id still like some company in the US to give me a 10/10 line for a decent price
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Only pointless to people with no vision. 😉
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i can count on 1 hand the number of websites that can serve fast enough to utilize that

itll help onli gaming but only to a point

the only real benefit is in file transfers, of large data, which will just speed up piracy
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Stop thinking only about downloading, and start thinking about HOSTING. I could host as many gaming servers as I wanted for my clan, and still be able to fileshare, surf the web, stream video, wtf... Ok just host servers is enough for me.
 
Well I am from Hong Kong... But I am stuck with 512kbps in UK ever since I moved there to study
Well HK 10MB boardband is cheap enough that a primary schooler can afford
 
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