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Originally Posted by weesteev
The reason to introduce 100Mb is obvious, it will help push demand for applications that CAN utilise that kind of bandwidth. If we dont have it then we dont know what we can do with such a fast pipe into the home. The possibilities for an ISP with a connection speed like that are endless, with online TV being the biggest reason.
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The thing is: That is not in VM's (or any ISP's) interest. Their ideal customer would be some who pays for 50 meg by direct debit and, at most, browses the odd web page. Not someone who canes their connection downloading stuff and watching videos.
I said earlier that Demand has always outstripped supply. If you ignore headline speeds, this is still true in some areas.
However, I can't think of a single application that the average person would need that would take advantage of even a correctly functioning 50 meg connection. Maybe once a few movie download services have started.