Why do you feel that? You can get within spitting distance with ADSL, and that's without bonding. Plenty of other DSL flavors beyond that too.
The key here is the need to invest more. The ISPs would rather milk the existing investment. It is also not a given that people would pay enough more for a faster network.
I don't quite follow your argument. Which speeds are unrealistically high?
> That money comes almost entirely from a special tax on those same companies. It's like adding a 10% sales tax to each iPhone or Pixel and then giving the money back to Apple and Google to subsidize phones for people…
ISPs have for decades been subsidized and not delivered. http://newnetworks.com/bookofbrokenpromises.htm
ISPs don't want faster internet if it means they need to invest. ISPs want to maximize their profit, not the speed of their internets.
Money, the answer is always money. The speed standard is used to funnel money to the incumbents. The incumbents are supposed to improve and/or upgrade their speeds or coverage to match these standards in return for…
Why do you feel that? You can get within spitting distance with ADSL, and that's without bonding. Plenty of other DSL flavors beyond that too.
The key here is the need to invest more. The ISPs would rather milk the existing investment. It is also not a given that people would pay enough more for a faster network.
I don't quite follow your argument. Which speeds are unrealistically high?
> That money comes almost entirely from a special tax on those same companies. It's like adding a 10% sales tax to each iPhone or Pixel and then giving the money back to Apple and Google to subsidize phones for people…
ISPs have for decades been subsidized and not delivered. http://newnetworks.com/bookofbrokenpromises.htm
ISPs don't want faster internet if it means they need to invest. ISPs want to maximize their profit, not the speed of their internets.
Money, the answer is always money. The speed standard is used to funnel money to the incumbents. The incumbents are supposed to improve and/or upgrade their speeds or coverage to match these standards in return for…