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To: Enlightened1
I know this. You are about to a massive increase in our Internet speed. It's going to go from anywhere between 3mbs up to 50mbs right now to 1000mbs or better know as a Gigabit of speed. To give you an idea of how fast 1 Gigabit of speed is say you download a High Definition movie that is on average over 5.5 Gigabytes. That will down load in a little over 3 seconds. That technology will be in place in most places in 5 years and pretty much every where in 10 years. It's already in motion.

Sure. ATT is just going to give everyone FIOS and increase our internet speed for nothing. So far, only companies near the junction points and willing to fork out big cash can get Gigabit speeds. Homeowners - forget it.

7 posted on 09/16/2014 2:33:41 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: raybbr
It's actually already in place with the 4G or as they call it 4th Generation LTE (Long Term Evolution). The 4G’s at the cell phone towers can be turned up to 1000GBS before you have to upgrade them.

AT&T and Google are actually laying the Fiber. Verizon has already done some of this with the FIOS and will be turning up their 4G cell towers.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/verizon-ceo-eyes-digital-video-service-by-mid-2015-1410467151

10 posted on 09/16/2014 2:54:45 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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