Comments on: Lithuania's TEO to offer 1 GBPS over fiber http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171601 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:17:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171601 @Om

Sure, I will keep you posted.
TEO practises some good (Int’l) PR here.
E.g we have an office connection (via TEO) 1MB down and 768kbps up and we are being charged roughly USD 175 per month (!), no real alternatives, so what can we do. I really wonder what they will charge for the connection they say they will offer soon….

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171600 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:34:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171600 Peter,

excellent point. I suspect as the demand increases, there will be more “international” connections. Meanwhile, keep us posted on how things are going there, so we can keep updating the stuff accordingly.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171599 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:33:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171599 Annonymous, check out the teledensity in the CIA factbook. not much to suggest a massive legacy of copper there. Sure every place has copper, just not as much as in the developed world.

]]> By: Peter http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171598 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:56:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171598 @Myself, the connectivity dissapeared for more than 16hrs, during office hours!

]]> By: Peter http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171597 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:55:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171597 Well, seeing is believing…TEO quotes “that will allow increasing the speed of services provided to the customer up to 1 Gbps”, that doesn’t imply they actually will provide that speed.

@Anonymous
The country is roughly 1.5 times The Netherlands, not really that small (okay compared to US…sure…)

But to give you some other background: about 1.5 months ago as good as all internet connectivity disappeared when some TEO employee decided to upgrade one of the major mainframes :-(

Currently there is only one connection to Telia (via Latvia). As long as we don’t get redundant connections to the outside world, what good is it to get potentially 1 Gbps ?

]]> By: Anonymous http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171596 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:48:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171596 It’s a little bit forced to assume that Lithuania is a country with little copper legacy. However, converting to fiber is easier if the country is small.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171595 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:37:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171595 Thanks for that correction Niklas – appreciate it.

]]> By: Niklas http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171594 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:27:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/03/lithuanias-teo-to-offer-1-gbps-over-fiber/#comment-171594 Telia and Sonera have merged.

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