Governments like Finland and Luxembourg want to deliver in the next five years fibre-to-the-home to the vast majority of their populations,” explained Paolo Campoli, director of solutions and business development at Cisco European and Emerging Markets.
“Finland has on the agenda 100Mbps by 2015 and 1Gbps by 2020, and I see other nations doing something similar.” He insists the eventual proliferation of 4G standards such as WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE), which have been trialled at locations in the UK and Scandinavia in the past year, will also justify the ballooning bandwidth volume.
In comparison US expects 100 million households to have Internet service of at least 100 megabits per second by 2020. These speeds are at least 10 times faster than Internet speeds most U.S. residents get today but slower then goal set by others for 2020.
Some countries will lead the way with Internet speed
