Iran gets more broadband

[charrison]

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Shiraz, Fars prov, May 6, IRNA -- Minister of Post, Telegraph and
Telephone (PTT) Ahmad Motamedi said here Tuesday that Iran has
increased its international connectivity to 459 megabytes per second
(MBPS) from mere four MBPS.
Motamedi told Iran's 11th Power Engineering Conference that total
web access has also reached 11,844 ports last year, providing services
to 1,250 subscribers.
He said number of web users in Iran now totals 3.2 million.
Motamedi said his ministry is to provide private sector with a low
interest loans totalling rls 400 billion to promote national
telecommunications network and information technology.
He said that last year, rls 1,000 billion was invested in
expansion of Data network.

More pron and spam on the way no doubt.

 

[Martin]

4 Megabytes/s? As in 32 residential DSL lines? As in 1 residential DSL line per 100 000 poeple?!


Wow. Even with their improvements, I think a condo building in HK or Seoul has more bandwidth (I think 1MBps connections are available in HK and Seoul, where new condos come with fiber optic/ethernet built in!).

 

[Mallow]

more bandwidth = more RIAA targets

 

[RyanM]

More bandwidth = The truth of their oppression will spread faster, and Iran will collapse from the inside with no outside influence. Wooohoo!

 

[0roo0roo]

once their children watch dude wheres my car on divx there will be a revolution!!

 

[LilBlinbBlahIce]

Iran is actually a very progressive country by Arab standards. They have an elected gov. but unfortunatly they also have a theocracy in place that is the real power in the country. I think anything that allows them to interact with the rest of the world will help nurture that desire for freedom and will serve as another tool to erode the power of the theoracy. Of course, it could end up like Saudi Arabia where even though they have internet, it is heavily filtered with any "objectionable" site blocked.

 

[cpumaster]

Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce
Iran is actually a very progressive country by Arab standards. They have an elected gov. but unfortunatly they also have a theocracy in place that is the real power in the country. I think anything that allows them to interact with the rest of the world will help nurture that desire for freedom and will serve as another tool to erode the power of the theoracy. Of course, it could end up like Saudi Arabia where even though they have internet, it is heavily filtered with any "objectionable" site blocked.

or like in China, imagine country that big with its population size, yet the govt still manage to filter the Internet, it boggle mind how they do that or how much money they have to spend to built infrastructure to control it that could be better spend somewhere else...

 

[ElFenix]

iran isn't an arab state.

 

[LilBlinbBlahIce]

True, my bad, I should have said Muslim.

 

[cpumaster]

btw, if Iran is theocracy state, why do they have elections? how does that work? They elect the Ayatollah just like the pope secret election in Rome?

 

[LilBlinbBlahIce]

Originally posted by: cpumaster
btw, if Iran is theocracy state, why do they have elections? how does that work? They elect the Ayatollah just like the pope secret election in Rome?

I'm not too well aquainted with Iran's political system. From what I understand, they have a president who I'm pretty suer they elect, as well as general civil administration. Then there is a theocracy with the ayatollah who controls their special army and who really weilds the power. I'll do some research on this to make sure I'm not wrong, till then anyone who knows for sure go ahead and correct me.

 

[cpumaster]

Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce

Originally posted by: cpumaster
btw, if Iran is theocracy state, why do they have elections? how does that work? They elect the Ayatollah just like the pope secret election in Rome?

I'm not too well aquainted with Iran's political system. From what I understand, they have a president who I'm pretty suer they elect, as well as general civil administration. Then there is a theocracy with the ayatollah who controls their special army and who really weilds the power. I'll do some research on this to make sure I'm not wrong, till then anyone who knows for sure go ahead and correct me.

yeah you're right, I check and it's as you say...btw, they have parliement that is also elected

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: Mallow
more bandwidth = more RIAA targets

I'd like to see the RIAA tell the government of Iran is *has* to do something.