Commentary
Silicon.com, 30 Jul 2009, Peter Cochrane
I made enquires and did a few tests on public sites, and it seems 1Mbps is a widespread norm for Singapore. I also tried my 3G dongle but could never get more than about 0.9Mbps. Strangely, a lot of my contacts seemed to accept that this rate is sufficient.
There seemed to be a paradox here. The Singapore government clearly gets it but it might be that some of the public don't - certainly my hotel manager didn't. Contrast this to the UK where the public gets it but the government doesn't.
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