EU Commission want 100Mbps by 2025 - Criticised for not being ambitious enough.

ItHurtsWhenIP

Says it all really.
http://www.euractiv.com/section/innovation-industry/news/leak-commission-to-propose-boosting-telecoms-competition-and-new-speed-target/

Although when you have crowds like Ripplecom stating that people don't need 30Mbps, you have to wonder. :mad:

Johnboy1951

I like this idea

“We assume that every village will have gigabit connectivity by 2025,” the official said.

df_h

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

I like this idea

That could be taken out of context, and a single 1gbit connection for each village split beween few hundred homes wont go far

X3Y2B7

df_h wrote: »

That could be taken out of context, and a single 1gbit connection for each village split beween few hundred homes wont go far

We'll ensure there's a gigabit switch in every village!

Johnboy1951

df_h wrote: »

That could be taken out of context, and a single 1gbit connection for each village split beween few hundred homes wont go far

If there were speaking of a guaranteed 30Mb/s per household and this is to be an increase on that, over a longer time frame, then I doubt that interpretation is correct ...... but who knows?
Maybe the villages only have 33 households

Cuddlesworth

df_h wrote: »

That could be taken out of context, and a single 1gbit connection for each village split beween few hundred homes wont go far

If your talking about the backbone, it would probably work quite well. I think it would make more sense to say that the connections must be capable of x amount.

marno21

This will mean a revision to the NBP as it only allows for upto 30Mbps (plenty of villages are covered on the NBP by VDSL.)

Mahony0509

I currently have a speed of 1mbps so anything is an improvement.

ItHurtsWhenIP

marno21 wrote: »

This will mean a revision to the NBP as it only allows for upto 30Mbps (plenty of villages are covered on the NBP by VDSL.)

I had talked to one of the DCENR bods about this last year and they planned to have increasing minimum bandwidth requirements throughout the 25 year life of the plan. 30Mbps is fine for 2017, but it will unlikely be by 2027 let alone 2042.

This was why wireless was never really going to be an option.

marno21

You'd wonder in that case what will happen to those on VDSL in villages not part of open eir's 2017-2020 FTTH plan, receiving only 31/32Mbps, who will be 'obsolete' after a year or two

ItHurtsWhenIP

marno21 wrote: »

You'd wonder in that case what will happen to those on VDSL in villages not part of open eir's 2017-2020 FTTH plan, receiving only 31/32Mbps, who will be 'obsolete' after a year or two

Well the existing commercial providers can't be forced to do anything about those under the NBP. However COMREG could be "asked" to remove the copper pair USO requirement on Open eir. This may be currently being looked at.

If that were to happen, it would make perfect commercial sense for Open eir to replace their copper network with glass. Selling the copper should cover most of the cost of doing so. Then the urban folk could catch up with the rest of us.