Yellow Clog

Missus got a call from the internet provider. They are offering to upgrade our connection from 6 Mb/s to 8 Mb/s, and at the same time cutting our phone+internet bill from 65 to 50 Euros per month. It does sound strange. When I checked their website, indeed the company is trying to abandon all the lower connections and want to make 8 Mb/s as the lowest speed. Then I found out that their 20 Mb/s now cost 65 Euros. So the question now is do I want to upgrade to 8 or 20 Mb/s?

But this is nothing compare to the superfast broadband that will be coming in the near future. In Holland, the government has been experimenting that broadband speed in one village for a year now. Just last month the first 50 homes in the UK got commercially connected to the 100Mb/s fibre optic broadband network. And in the news today Australia is planning to spend US$30.6 billion on what's been labelled as "the single biggest infrastructure decision" in the country's history," to create a nationwide high speed broadband network of up to 100 Mb/s.