Sunday, May 21, 2006
Lattelecom goes to 10 Mbps in some places
Lattelecom starting May 22 will offer 10 Mbps DSL speeds for 11.99, the same as its basic 512 kbps Home DSL. This was predicted on the blog some time ago. Unfortunately, the news leaked out as I was away in Stockholm and I could not check out all the details. One possibly personally disappointing aspect is that the 10 Mbps service will be offered in outlying areas of Riga, mostly the Soviet-era new suburbs (some pretty grim architecture) where competition has been the most intense from actors like Balticom (10Mbps from a respectable service) and others, some of whom are fly-by-night. I live in the Centra (Central) district of Riga and there is no clear word that the new service will be available there immediately. Perhaps I will be pleasantly surprised when I get back to Latvia in the evening. Whatever the outcome for me (still enjoying 1 Mbps at home after paying LVL 1.99 extra per month), I am glad the predictions came true. Now let us wait for the next jump to 24 Mbps...
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In Estonia all 3 major ISPs: ADSL providers Elion and Elisa and cable TV network Starman have increased their speeds.
While Starman first said they will not do it, they had to follow others, although they mostly doubled the speeds (my 17 LVL per month DigiTV+phone+net 2 Mbps became 4 Mbps) and the 15 Mbps speed is available only in the VIP 24 LVL package (which also has 2 phone lines and 70 DigiTV channels). For now I am enjoying the 4 Mbps and probably do not see the need to upgrade to 15 Mbps in the next few months.
Well, since Starman operates on a TV network, I'm guessing DOCSIS standards based technologies with a lot of shared loops are used. So resources available to them currently probably do not match the ones made available to the telcos . From a technological point of view, they could not afford an upgrade in speeds, but the marketing department hit the panic button when early adopters started to migrate their internet connections to Elisa. It would be interesting to know what their overselling ratio right now :)
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