So Rogers has lost me as a customer...

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 1 15:42:05 UTC 2006


On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:51:35PM -0500, Leigh Honeywell wrote:
> EVDO, the "new Bell wireless thing" is only around 2.4 Mbps.  There is
> a 25 Mbps service being rolled out, but you can only get 5 of actual
> internet off it - the other 20 are being used to deliver IPTV.  2
> channels at 10Mbps per.  Over a traditional phone line, currently only
> rolled out to a few CO's.
> 
> But screw the next-gen DSL.  I'd like some FTTP please :-)

VHDSL looks nice, although it looks like it essentially would be running
fibre to the block, and then switching it to DSL over the phoneline at
that point.  Does make the fibre all the way seem about as simple.

Len Sorensen
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