High Speed Network as Basic Infrastructure - A Success Story

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(in Hungary, of course).
Its a town in Hungary where they basically ran Fibre everywhere, as a basic infrastructure play.  It worked quite remarkably well.  The video is somewhat advert-ish, but the essential benefits do come forth.  Broadly speaking
  • Its keeping the young 'uns in town after they graduate, since they are 'connected' - its also stimulating startups
  • Its also keeping older people (60+) more 'connected'.  (Makes sense, as anyone with kids knows, Facetime/Skype has *huge* uptake amongst the previous generation)
  • Its green, and lower cost, since it makes telecommuting actually feasible and realistic
  • Its good for industry, helping out with supply-chain management, logistics, and ERP
  • Communication is, of course, dramatically simpler, easier, and lower cost
  • Its a boon to the media/advertising industry, since its trivial to move data
  • Retail benefits, with the ease of melding the web and Brick&Mortar
  • Its remarkably cheap - it costs basically nothing to dig a trench and put fibre in.  Again, something that we know here - it costs nothing to put in fibre in rural areas..
Fascinating to see this in action...

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