Fast enough for you?

FAST ENOUGH FOR YOU?
[SOURCE: Telephony Online, AUTHOR: Ed Gubbins]
The telecom industry has forever wrestled with the question of how much bandwidth to deliver to residential consumers. But this year, a chorus of authoritative voices is offering new proposals for specific speed goals. How those target speeds should be calculated, however, is one more tough question to ponder. In January, Vermont's governor proposed a plan to ensure all Vermonters at least 3 Mb/s of symmetric bandwidth by 2010 and at least 20 Mb/s symmetrically by 2013. In March, the Fiber-to -the-Home Council called on Congress to ensure 100 Mb/s of symmetric broadband to most Americans by 2010 and to all Americans by 2015. And a bill introduced in the Minnesota state legislature the same month called for the availability of 1 Gb/s of symmetric bandwidth to all Minnesotans by 2015. How did they arrive at these numbers, and whose methodology makes sense?
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