• AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Its not stupid at all. “Broadband” speed is a term that laypeople across the country can at least conceptualize. Articles like this aren’t necessarily written exclusively for industry folks. If the population can’t relate to the information well, how can they hope to pressure telcos for better services?

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      7 months ago

      So it’s fine if an article says Space X develops a new rocket that travels 100x faster than a car?

      Because that implies a breakthrough when it’s actually not significantly faster than other rockets: it’s the speed needed to reach the ISS.

      10X faster than existing fiber would be accurate reporting. Especially given that there are labs that have transmitted at peta bit speeds over optical already. So terabit isn’t significant, only his method.

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          7 months ago

          Then give me a related analogy you would accept and I’ll easily twist it into a misleading comparison exactly the article did.

          How about this, “British Telecom develops high speed internet 1700x faster than previous Internet service technology. Availability is today!”

          The above statement is completely true.

          Comparing to home Internet when it isn’t home Internet technology is misleading. Ignoring that there are already faster optical Internet speeds in other labs around the world is misleading.

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              7 months ago

              Except that isn’t the case here. It’s completely different technology that transfers the data. So it’s comparing a train to a car.