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You'll be forgiven for not being intimately familiar with Californian ISP Sonic.net, though we get the feeling you'll also wish it operated a little closer to your abode by the time you've finished reading this. You see, Sonic has always dabbled in the business of high-speed, low-price internet connectivity, and now it's going for the jugular with a new fiber-to-the-home service, which costs just $69.95 a month, reaches speeds up to 1Gbps, and bundles in two phone lines and unlimited long distance calling. Just for reference, Comcast's "Extreme" 105Mbps connection costs $105 a pop when taken as part of a bundle, whereas Sonic's budget menu option will net you a 100Mbps line for $39.95 (plus a phone line with unlimited calls). Understandably, Sonic's grand plan is starting out small, with a trial in Sebastopol spanning 700 households, but provided the company doesn't go bust by giving people so much for so little, expansion to bigger cities will follow, with San Francisco and Santa Rosa being the prime candidates. And just in case you're questioning Sonic's credentials, Google's chosen the ISP to manage its gigabit fiber network at Stanford University, and who knows ultrafast broadband better than Google?

[Thanks, Roland]

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Good news for anyone feeling left behind by the broadband revolution just because of their post code: Fujitsu has just announced a joint venture to deliver fiber optic connectivity to neglected rural homes in the UK. Built on hardware provided by Cisco and supported by Virgin Media and TalkTalk, this network will focus on channeling fiber directly to the home, which is said to provide symmetrical 1Gbps bandwidth with up to 10Gbps speeds considered possible down the line. Best news of all, perhaps, is that the cabling will be available on a wholesale basis to all ISPs, not just the ones involved in the project, so the UK may finally get a decent taste of what competition in the internet service space feels like. Alas, there's a key line in the press release that notes the new venture is dependent on BT providing "access to its underground ducts and telegraph poles on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms," which it apparently isn't doing at the moment. Ah well, we're sure they'll sort things out like the mature professionals that they are. Full PR after the break.

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Recently TM.Net has launch a new High Speed Broadband that we call UniFi but sadly it comes with bandwidth limitation unless you’re using a business packages. I think there’s a no point if you’re having a high speed broadband but have this kind of caps limitations.

Due to public comment via twitter and blog TM.Nut already put off the caps for now for VIP Packages. This is only temporary for now . So if you’re a heavy user just spend another RM 50 to get the Biz5 Packages so you can play safe. More will be updated soon

Dear Valued Customers,

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to inform our customers that we will be migrating our existing global network to a new platform to facilitate ongoing improvements of our network performance and service quality. The migration will allow TM to provide a more integrated service proposition to support a larger ecosystem of applications.

The migration exercise will take place on 9, 13, 16, 20, 23 and 30 January 2010 between 12.00 am until 6.00 am.

Therefore, all our Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services such as Streamyx, iTalk and Home Prepaid customers nationwide may experience minor service interruptions during the stipulated period. We would like to assure our customers that the services would resume to normal after the stipulated period.

TM would like to thank you for your patience during our migration period and we would like to assure you that we are upgrading our network to enable us to provide you with the best in next- generation network (NGN) services.

For more information, customers can contact us at 100 or log on to www.tm.com.my.

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FTTH: Fiberoptic To The Home. It’s here. We’re just waiting for blast-off. This junction box in Bangsar Kuala Lumpur is just waiting for activation. It was released as a trial in Sri Hartamas Kuala Lumpur way back at the end of 2007. But with the recession setting in, everything slowed to a snail’s crawl. Well, snail’s pace taken into consideration, it seems that things have picked up again.
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