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While in Mexico we have broadband connections that reach as much as a 4 Mbps, in other countries in the world, this speed is simply laughable. For a developing country access to the network via ADSL technology may be more a luxury than a necessity, that is why there are no more advanced technology like in European countries.

Just today I find that Telmex, a monopoly of telecommunications in Latin America, has decided to remove the speeds of 2 Mbps and 4 Mbps of plans for residential broadband Internet. In this way, all users will access speeds of 1 Mbps.

On the other hand, the opposite side. A resident of Sacramento, California in the United States, assumed his new symmetric broadband connection that goes to 50 Mbps; that is 50 times faster than what is found in Mexico. Today this man has the fastest residential connection in the United States, but not of the world, because in countries like Spain, are being tested higher speeds using VDSL technology, but that's another story. The ISP is SureWest, who together with Cablevision and Verizon, offer similar speeds in this region of California. The monthly price for that connection is USD $ 260, although it may include added services such as digital TV, high definition TV, local calls and long distance, and wireless PCS network, which would increase the receipt to about USD $ 415 a month (as reference, in Mexico, the plan will cost approximately 4 Mbps of USD $ 415).

Will undoubtedly go some time before that in Latin America, we can enjoy those speeds. Can you imagine having a rate of ascent and descent of 300 MB / s?. We could download an entire DVD in about 10 or 15 seconds.

In Sacramento, 50 mbps broadband on tap (MCMC)