Originally Posted by
GPRS Internet
Do we really need more than 100mb in the home? Well I guess at the rate at which we are consuming media I guess 100mb will soon be the norm.
For businesses they definitely need to offer much greater speeds so they can start investing there.
And that will only be done if competition offers better.
Flow Does offer high speeds via their direct fiber offerings...in the Gbps if required. I do not think that the ISPs are a limitations when it comes to overseas investment.
Originally Posted by
nevintech
yep.. 100mb will be like 1mbit vs dialup back in the day.. but eventually - file sizes get bigger we crave more clearer/sharper images/videos.....games with sizes of several GBs, 720p/1080p HD is almost the daily driver - for example
I agree we will need more that 100Mbps and that should happen soon. But I am not sure about 1Gig as they are pushing to get more efficient web and Video standards. However time will tell.
Originally Posted by
Brandysull
Well, if the acquisition happens, one thing I am sure of is that FLOW will replace it's AVS service with the Liberty's Horizon Mediabox and bring true entertainment to the homes of Caribbean nationals. They may also bring quite exclusive content (Liberty has interest stake in quite a few media houses like ITV in the UK and various other entities) and will most likely give Digicel a whole lot of hell. Liberty Global operates Switzerland's largest cable comapny, UPC Cablecom as well as Virgin Media in Ireland, Virgin Mobile in the UK and Ziggo in The Netherlands (The country's largest cable operator). On top of this, there are rumblings as of recent of a
merger between Vodafone (yes, that Vodafone... the huge multinational telecoms operator) and Liberty Global valued at about £140bn. If this new merger happens, FLOW Mobile may just become Vodafone Caribbean or Virgin Mobile or stay the same. Not to mention them possibly owning ALL links leaving the Caribbean and some crucial ones leaving Latin America. I'm keeping my eyes peeled on this merger. Don't think FLOW/LIME is dead and buried; with this much firepower behind them, they're coming.
Last edited by BNOVA; Dec 31, 2015 at 05:18 PM.
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