(Move to Scandinavia, get decent broadband) Telenor leads push for faster broadband

www.thelocal.se ^ | 05/18/2007 | Paul O'Mahony

[WesternCulture]

A potential collaboration between Telenor and Telia could result in extremely high speed broadband for 1.8 million Swedish households. Computer Sweden magazine reports that Telenor has invited Telia for talks about the new vdsl2 technology.

The cost of developing a vdsl2 network in Sweden is estimated at 10 billion kronor ($1.5 billion).

"The best thing would be for Telia, Telenor and Tele 2 to reach an agreement on how best to finance the investment," Telenor's Swedish CEO Johan Lindgren told Computer Sweden.

If implemented, the system is expected to grant almost two million Swedish households access to a broadband capacity of 100 megabits per second.

Paul O'Mahony

[Kimmers]

Uff-da, would that mean I would have to eat Lutefisk if I moved there?

[WesternCulture]

“Uff-da, would that mean I would have to eat Lutefisk if I moved there?”

- Yes.

Once a year.

In Sweden ‘Lutfisk’ is part of the traditional Swedish ‘Julbord’ (Yule table/Christmas table).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5sbord

Lutefisk. The cost of unparalleled standards of living.

[TxCopper]

Wow. Thats about 10-12 real megabytes a second. That is just unreal. Think back about 4 or 5 years ago. 10-12 megabytes was the speed from your hard drive to your computer's processor!

[Newsjnke]

I think it was just last week that at a cable business oriented expo in Las Vegas (I think) it was demonstrated that the new docsis 3 standard for cable modems can deliver 150 megs over a standard cable system. Supposed to be available to suscribers within 2 years.