Super-mega ADSL coming to Canada?
This post will be of interest to a certain subset of Canadians only, but as I’m in that subset I’m going to write it.
I came across an interesting press release from Primus about there plans to launch ADSL2+ service in Canada:
‘[Primus are constructing] a local colocation network covering three million households and businesses in five Canadian provinces. This phase of the network build uses ADSL2+ technology and will be largely complete by the end of June 2006…
…ADSL2+ technology offers Internet access speeds up to of 22 Mbps (Megabits per second) to consumers…’
Yep, that’s 22Mbps. And I got excited when Sympatico upped my DSL line to 5Mbps a month or two ago. By my calculations, at 22Mbps you could download a full, uncompressed DVD quality movie in about 30 minutes. This is nearly the fibre to the home that we ought to have by now, flying cars can’t be far behind.
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Comments (5)
Comment from Boris Mann:
[June 14, 2006]
Except, of course, that it’s Primus. Whose VoIP still has lots of issues. And in what areas? They still have to travel over the service provider copper loops, so the areas where they can roll this out will be quite small.
And…how many areas do you think you can get fiber to the home? Richmond Hill, downtown Vancouver, etc.
Comment from Patrick Dinnen:
[June 14, 2006]
Why did you have intrude on my fun with ‘reality’ Borris ;-)
The press relaease talked about 3 million housholds and businesses to be covered by the service I think. As long as my house is one of those 3 million getting 22Mbps ADSL then I’m happy.
I’m not too worried about the voip, I can always set that up myself. It’s just that big fat pipe I’m looking forward to.
Comment from Rohan Jayasekera:
[August 26, 2006]
(I just saw this post.) Or you can just upgrade to Sympatico Optimax, if it’s available in your part of Toronto. Either 10 Mb/s or 16 Mb/s depending on how much you’re willing to pay ($70 or $100 a month, instead of $46.95 for what you have now).
Comment from pdinnen:
[August 28, 2006]
Interesting, I hadn’t heard about Optimax. Worth considering, but $70-100 is a *lot* to shell out each month for a faster connection, especially considering the plans come with a bandwidth cap, albeit a generous one.
Comment from JD:
[January 22, 2007]
Well, an update to the above. ColbaNet must be Bell’s Guinea pig for this service. 24meg for $30mo on a 1yr contract.
http://corp.colba.net/Colbanet-cool-en.html
Bell has the infrastruture in place, just looks like they don’t want to put their name on a full blown product in case it flops.