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China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds (www.techradar.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Worse than that, from the article:

The 50G-PON ITU-T standard supports theoretical speeds of up to 50 Gbps downstream and up to 25 Gbps upstream, though current real-world deployments in China - led by China Telecom, its regional branch Shanghai Telecom, and ZTE - typically provide 10 Gbps all-optical access.

So the 50G number is just theoretical and actual real world speed is only 10G. Due to regulations in the US, advertisements would need to advertise the real speeds. So this is really just the same as 10Gbps anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Wait, there are regulations about advertising true speed? Does ComCast know? Does AT&T?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It may be only loosely enforced with fines but there are FTC rules that all online marketing must follow https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/advertising-marketing-internet-rules-road

It does and up helping a little bit. I'm addition to government fines, they also risk class action lawsuits from their customers. I'm willing to bet this is more of a hurdle than China has for state owned companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yep, which makes alarmist articles like this ridiculous.