Hong Kong Offers 1GBPS Residential FTTH

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Hong Kong Offers 1 Gigabit Residential Internet Access.
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Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (HKBN), a wholly owned subsidiary of City Telecom (HK) Limited announced the official launch of its bb1000 service, a symmetric 1Gbps for the Residential market. HKBN believes that Hong Kong is the first market in the World whereby 1/3rd of the total households, approximately 800,000 households out of a total of 2.2 million households, can now enjoy World Leading FTTH (Fibre-to-the-Home) symmetric 1Gbps Internet access service.

Heres a Link to their website regarding the 1GBPS FTTH architecture.

http://www.hkbn.net/bb1000/opt_conn.html

1Gbps... I would ask my dad to get it in Hong Kong in a heartbeat but none of our house equiptment and network can support 1Gbps... our LAN network was built back in 2000 or 1999 and we only did 100Mbps and Gigabit routers will be ridiculously expensive.

Does anyone know if they have this service anywhere else in the world for residential users or is Hong Kong the first one again after offering 100mbps about 2 years ago?
 
You can also get FTTH here in the US... The speeds are NOWHERE near the availability in other countries, but it is possible to get FTTH here (I have a number of co-workers who have it).

The highest FTTH I know of is about 30/10mbit from Verizon. I'm fairly certain that's low for what is actually available.
 
Hmm, suddenly the $45/mo for my 4mb connection seems a bit f a rip-off.
 
^lol... Hong Kong is reknowned for its cheap internet because its infrastructure is so well built and maintained and it has a dense population, therefore it makes it easy to cover the entire population... and Hokiethang, I believe I was getting 100mbps on a normal Ethernet connection to my home and just Fiber to the building in Hong Kong, but maybe its different for more spread out populations... but imagine 1Gbps internet, I might as well watch TG while I'm download it, it'll prob. finish downloading before I even get halfway :D
 
just imagine the enormous amounts of shemale porn one could leech through those pipes!:cool:
 
I pay 30$ for 1Mbit/256kbit unlim DSL.
 
I hear you can get FTTP in Japan and S Korea, not sure about the speed but it's like $40US/mo

My connection is about 5 megs on DSL in Seoul... but it is free (included in my rent). I was told that I cna upgrade to a 75 meg line (45 down) for an extra 65 per month... no thanks (for now).
 
Wowsers, you can get much better deals than that...

4mbps - is that ADSL2+ on a very crappy line, or cable?

cable... but I'm behind a PABX system in my building so ADSL is out of the question. The body corporate decided to be a smartass and monopolized the internet and phone in the building, thank god I'm moving out in Feb when I get back.
 
cable... but I'm behind a PABX system in my building so ADSL is out of the question. The body corporate decided to be a smartass and monopolized the internet and phone in the building, thank god I'm moving out in Feb when I get back.

Ah, well ain't that just a load of bollocks - not that you need me to tell you that.
 
^Please don't start :lol:... I've sent about a million emails to them complaining about how I should get a choice of service and all that crap. In the beginning I was supposed to get 8mbps but after so many speed tests, I only got 3.8 at the most so I complained and then she said they made an error and it was supposed to be 4mbps :lol:. But I gave up and just learnt to live with 10GB a month, I can't wait for ADSL2+ though when I move next year :D
 
I can beat that. I'm paying $143.20/mo for 512k DSL (the highest speed on offer!), but, due to my crappy line quality, it's limited to 288k/160k. :cry:

When I renew I'm going to downgrade to the 256k DSL, which is "only" $80.44/mo.

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Fucking hell...I thought I was being ripped off paying 50USD for 400k...
I envy the others who pay much less....<_<
 
I used to have Verizon's FIOS (FTTH) when i was temporarily living just outside of Philly - $35 a month for a 30mb/5mb connection - that was about 2 years ago.

now i pay about $35 a month for a 1.5mb/768kb DSL connection from Verizon.

it has always confused me that Verizon chose to rollout the FTTH in the 'burbs (with low population density and few commercial spaces) rather than in the city (with high rises, high density and lots of commercial spaces)



My best connection was still in college, when we have a 100 mb network with gigabit switches connected to 3 OC3 lines... i could sustain 10+ MB/s downloads from Apple's software update network... and heck, that connection only cost me $30,000 a year... :rolleyes:
 
it has always confused me that Verizon chose to rollout the FTTH in the 'burbs (with low population density and few commercial spaces) rather than in the city (with high rises, high density and lots of commercial spaces)

The reason for that is outfitting a high rise or high density housing with fiber costs Verizon A LOT more than running trunk lines down suburban streets. Burying cable is cheaper than getting fiber pulled through an entire building. (They have to pull ethernet to each housing unit from the phone box location, adding to the cost). The suburbs also tend to have more higher spending people (More people willing to subscribe to HBO, Cinemax, etc...), because even though those people exist in cities, they tend to spend their money in the city (seeing movies in theaters, etc...) as opposed to watching them at home.
 
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