[71632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband? Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Jun 19 20:14:32 2004
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 05:43:52 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Michael Painter <tvhawaii@shaka.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406191634500.4317-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Stephen J. Wilcox [19/06/04 16:38 +0100]:
>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Michael Painter wrote:
>
> > A coupla' years ago, the FCC defined "Broadband" as 200Kbps and above.
>
> Hmm different jurisdiction but Tiscali & NTL seems to think broadband is as
> low as 100Kbps
In India, it is anywhere over 64 Kbps, and the maximum offered over cable /
dsl is currently 512 Kbps.
And of course, anything below several Mbps (or 100 Mbps in the case of FTTH)
is definitely not "broadband" in Japan :)
srs
