Juha Saarinen wrote:
I'm sorry but the regulation has 128 as the MAXIMUM upload speed, not some kind of regulated minimum. He can expect all he likes, without some new regulation that says otherwise, 128 is all the incumbent has to deliver and 128 is all it will deliver.
I've just come back from Sydney where I was at the Equinix Gigabit Peering Forum drinking beer. One of the talks was from John Lindsay at Internode about peering etc but he talked about their ADSL network. Of course, in Oz their regulator mandates access to the local loop so these guys have deployed their own ADSL2+ with speeds of up to 24000k/1000k for $59.95 per month. See http://www.internode.on.net/ and http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2/index.htm Perhaps there is some benefit in unbundling the local loop (;-)