{"id":2264,"date":"2006-04-02T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2006-04-02T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2006-04-02T16:46:55","slug":"att_15mbps_inte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"Paradox of the Worse Network &#8211; AT&#038;T: &#8220;15Mbps Internet  Connections Irrelevant&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20060331-6498.html\">Nate Anderson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>At this week&#8217;s Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications conference, AT&#038;T COO Randall Stephenson told his listeners that increased bandwidth was no longer of great importance to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the foreseeable future, having a 15 Mbps Internet capability is irrelevant because the backbone doesn&#8217;t transport at those speeds,&#8221; he told the conference attendees. Stephenson said that AT&#038;T&#8217;s field tests have shown &#8220;no discernable difference&#8221; between AT&#038;T&#8217;s 1.5 Mbps service and Comcast&#8217;s 6 Mbps because the problem is not in the last mile but in the backbone.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>AT&#038;T, formerly SBC is the dominant internet provider in Wisconsin&#8230;&#8230;  Stephenson completely misses the point that bidirectional fast networks to the home will open up many, many small business opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Anderson: At this week&#8217;s Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications conference, AT&#038;T COO Randall Stephenson told his listeners that increased bandwidth was no longer of great importance to consumers. &#8220;In the foreseeable future, having a 15 Mbps Internet capability is irrelevant because the backbone doesn&#8217;t transport at those speeds,&#8221; he told the conference attendees. Stephenson said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}