<div dir="ltr">In defence of the developing world, I have 30M/5M fibre in Chiang Mai, Thailand's rural second city. <div><br></div><div>I'm about 8kms from the city centre so it's not a CBD perk. I get the full 30Mbps downstream and pretty much the 5Mbps upstream. I make 10cent calls to Australia and the MOS is so good that you can't pick it from a local call.<div><br></div><div>I never saw any cable get laid in or above ground but then they recently added a centimetre or three to the kilometre of road out front and they were done the same day. RTT was ~130ms but I just had a look and I'm getting 90ms to 139.130.4.4</div><div><br></div><div>Of course there's the flip side which is that there's about one outage a month of half-a-day and half the time no-one seems to know about it (sit it out). Also, most good things here go to crap eventually (so you move). </div><div><br></div><div>I'm paying a steep $150/mth whereas previously, I had good and free connectivity via WiFi/aDSL to the same provider but it's a lot better than having to fire up the GSM network when you need to make a 'business grade' call (and good luck with GSM anyway).</div><div><br></div><div>Free WiFi is available everywhere and 'sane grade' connectivity can be had if you do your homework. My 3G coverage is good $20/mth with included calls and 4GB cap. A long neck beer is $1.50 (50 baht).</div><div><br></div><div>When I go to Melbourne, the meter goes on from the moment I arrive until right down to the departure lounge. Hotels in the CDB charge 1990's rates for internet access that seems to be commonly compromised by some NZ mob who claim to be offering premium access for movie directors wanting to upload (movies?) with the scum (the $200 per nighters) dropping >5% of packets. It's rubbish and yet another reason to get out of the hotel. And I did say 'hotels' plural.</div><div><br></div><div>Everything thereafter in this 'First World' is screw-you exploitation (because you're not contracted down to a screw-you contract). Exetel disappointed me because I forgot that I had only a couple of hundred MB of data (try that overnight on OS X) and AmaySim seems the only provider that can accommodate 'non contractees'.</div><div><br></div><div>So anyway, I know which side of the digital divide I want to live on.</div><div><br></div><div>As an aside, the Chinese are (allegedly) funding extensive fibre rollouts in Laos (at some recent point, the world's poorest country). Not sure if this is it</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.vientianetimes.org.la/FreeContent/freeCont_Nationwide%20fibre.htm">http://www.vientianetimes.org.la/FreeContent/freeCont_Nationwide%20fibre.htm</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>traceroute to 139.130.4.4 (139.130.4.4), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets<br></div><div><div> 1 192.168.1.1 1.911 ms 0.656 ms 0.592 ms</div><div> 2 110.77.157.1 5.924 ms 8.450 ms 8.247 ms</div><div> 3 110.77.255.201 17.619 ms 16.264 ms 16.446 ms</div><div> 4 110.77.255.33 16.435 ms 16.476 ms 16.164 ms</div><div> 5 122.155.226.37 19.190 ms 16.129 ms 15.920 ms</div><div> 6 61.19.7.145 14.280 ms 16.229 ms 16.371 ms</div><div> 7 61.19.7.162 16.328 ms 16.010 ms 16.303 ms</div><div> 8 61.19.9.130 29.231 ms 32.222 ms 32.189 ms</div><div> 9 202.126.173.249 52.637 ms 46.839 ms 48.772 ms</div><div>10 202.84.180.157 47.095 ms 63.132 ms 52.989 ms</div><div>11 202.84.141.153 94.281 ms 100.814 ms 91.853 ms</div><div>12 203.50.13.229 98.180 ms 96.032 ms 95.782 ms</div><div>13 139.130.4.4 95.298 ms 97.464 ms 95.997 ms</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com" target="_blank">Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
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In Slashdot<br>
<a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/10/22/2140207/will-fiber-to-the-home-create-a-new-digital-divide" target="_blank">http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/10/22/2140207/will-fiber-to-the-home-create-a-new-digital-divide</a><br>
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The article<br>
<a href="http://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/fiber-networks-and-the-new-digital-divide/a/d-id/1316829" target="_blank">http://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/fiber-networks-and-the-new-digital-divide/a/d-id/1316829</a><br>
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The opening line<br>
"Three months ago, my wife and I moved to a new apartment in Barcelona. A week after our telephone line and DSL service were installed, our ISP offered us fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service without additional cost."<br>
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"FTTH connections are currently booming in countries such as Portugal and Spain. In Spain, Telefónica will reach 10 million households this year. Jazztel, recently acquired by the French operator Orange, will reach 3 million more users at the end of the year. Portugal's main operator, Portugal Telecom (PT), had more than 1.3 million homes connected at the end of 2013, with plans to reach 2.5 million this year."<br>
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Can any remember which telco Malcom bought into.. I remember at the time it was touted as removing FTTN and moving towards FTTH.<br>
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