I just got gigabit. These folks are getting 50?!
The fastest internet, hampered by the Great Firewall
Enterprises, sure.
Homes? Why? I can’t even find a good use for a single gigabit download for personal use. Being able to download a new game in 3 minutes rather than 5 isn’t something I’m willing to pay additional money every month to get. Remote desktops, video streaming, gaming, there’s nothing uses that much bandwidth even in my household of 5 people.
Hong Kong is extremely small. Offering the service to both (and oversubscribing the hell out of 50G) is extremely simple, since a business might be anywhere including close to consumers, so you’re building the infra regardless.
I don’t think it makes sense for most people to pay for this, but in 1998 you would have said “we will never need more than aDSL for the consumer” yet here we are with 1G/ 5G links to the home that are getting actually saturated.
