Hong Kong's Fiber-to-The-Home: 1Gbps at $215 !!!

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HONG KONG, Sept. 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- City Telecom (HK) Limited's wholly owned subsidiary, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited ("HKBN") today announced a revolution in Hong Kong's broadband market, being the FIRST Internet service provider in Hong Kong to launch Fiber-To-The- Home (FTTH) residential broadband services, "FiberHome100". Significantly, HKBN has turned traditionally cost prohibitive FTTH technology into affordable mass-deployed residential service, at US$48.5 service fee for its 100Mbps access service.

After the breakthrough launch of bb1000 in 2004, HKBN is again delivering the future today. Effective immediately, HKBN will offer residential FTTH broadband services ranging from 100Mbps to 1Gbps, namely, FiberHome100, FiberHome200 and FiberHome1000, at US$48.5, US$88.2 and US$215.4 respectively.

Living the vision of technological advancement, HKBN will phase out our entry bb10 service (symmetric 10Mbps service), ceasing to accept new subscriptions for this service. As such, our entry service will now be our bb25 (25Mbps symmetric service).

In Hong Kong, as early as 2002, HKBN already envisioned the future need for bandwidth, and invested more than HK$2 billion in network infrastructure, set to offer symmetrical broadband service up to 1Gbps. Enabled by pioneering technologies, FTTH is the art of our advanced network platform with minimal extra investment and upgrade work. With the technology leap from Fiber to the Building to FTTH, end-users can enjoy the full benefits of Future Technology today. Not only does the use of optical fiber allow easy bandwidth upgrade beyond 1Gbps, but the reliability of the broadband service will also be enhanced considering the fact that optical fiber device are passive devices that do not require electricity.

HKBN is delighted to announce yet another technological and market breakthrough. Chairman of HKBN, Ricky Wong, said, "High speed broadband service (FTTH) is a foreseeable inevitability that we had prepared for 3 years ago. Holding onto to the belief that a service provider should deliver the best and most up-to-dated services available to the public, we are pleased to be able to launch the massively-deployed FTTH version of 100Mbps, 200Mbps and 1000Mbps in Hong Kong, which also contribute to further enhance Hong Kong's role as Asia's telecommunications hub."
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Source: CTEL Mass Deploys Fiber-To-The-Home Making the Future Today in Hong Kong

Will someone please forward this to India's I&B Ministry!!!

The slowest speed out there is 25Mbps and the Chairman of HKBN calls it 'a foreseeable inevitability' !!!
 
One more strong reason to hate our ministers. They are all fat craps. :@

Anyways, i have mailed all that to the TOP Executives of MTNL, just to do my lil bit. :cool2:
 
Fat craps, haha!

Stupid Airtel, I called them a week ago to upgrade my connection to 512kbps unlm and they still haven't done it.

Sometimes I wonder if India and IT should really be used in the same sentence.
 
I advice who ever read this news to consider it bad dream since it's never gonna come true here :tongue:
or start searching how to settle in Hong Kong :bleh:
 
thats bloody insane.. who/how/where/when we cant even expect this in india, even if we could afford it.. who the **** is gonna provide us with that the normal 2 mbps lines and download rates provided by bsnl are atrocious as it is..

Now see thats market dominance for you, the gov wont even allow these guys to step foot here, they know that their BSNL/MTNL will lose out and take names while dying.. so its unforseeable this really sucks!!!!!
 
In California you can only get cable @ 10mbps, I'm sure India will catch up to that soon enough :) but 25mbps at slowest.... wow
 
don't share such "never possible dreams" for india.......

& they say india is going to become "software giant"......

internet sucks big time in india.......

bloody govt. didn't even remove tax from broadband...... leave apart positively & actively supporting broadband penetration in india.........

& there are other reasons too...

broadband demand in india is really low......this has been the major reason for reduced growth of broadband sector in india...just compare it with telecom industry...... demand has driven tremendous growth there......

same private companies like airtel are unwilling to make investments (which are really big in laying down fiber-optic cable) seeing no major returns.......

even in near future, there doesn't seem to be any major increase in demand....

so unfortunately, things aren't gonna change much....
 
Will the hard disk be able the write at 128 MB/Sec? we will need a raid array for such speeds.

secondly which server is going to provide 1Gbps download bandwidth.10 Mbps shpuld do it nicely for our country.
 
or you can just hook up 2-3 pcs (your lappys, desktops, cellphone etc) to 1 connection and still be able to surf/download at blazing speed ;)
 
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