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China rolls out world’s first 10G broadband; here’s how fast it is | The Express Tribune

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China has launched the world’s first commercial 10-Gigabit (10G) broadband network in Sunan County, Hebei Province, with a significant deployment in Xiong’an New Area, a high-tech city being developed as a smart metropolis. The initiative, a collaboration between Huawei and state-owned China Unicom, went live on 20 April 2025.

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Awesome, that cuts the Steam update time till I can game down to under half an hour!

how is it the world's first when there are several ISPs that have been offering 10g fiber for the past year
- I have no idea, they're saying they're basing the deployment on Huawei 50G networks, sooo I think this is either the author who didn't understand the assignment or a terrible translation?
  Edit: well it seems like it's 10G as in wireless. Every article is absolutely trash so I searched in Chinese and found this article (translated) which compares it to 5G and mentions the use of new wavelengths to transmit the data
- Past year? Iint7 (Switzerland) has been offering symmetric 10Gb to home users for almost a decade and their flagship home package has been 25Gbps for a few years now. Multiple ISPs in the UK have offered symmetric 10Gb for 6-7 years, ditto some American and Singaporean ISPs. I've had 10Gb on tap for years now. Funny how this clickbait untruthful article also slips in that the product isn't even symmetric, having a 10:1 down/up ratio. The 10Gb from my own ISP is being upgraded to symmetric 50Gbps later this year.
  
  god when will i get fiber??
- Yeah, it doesn't make sense because even in the article it talks about other nations already having it and china trying to rollout faster.
- Its the worlds first in China*
- Cause china ...and we're on lemmy ...so yea
  Another article is also at the top about bird drones that are going to turn the drone world on its head.

I’ve been able to get 8GBps fibre home internet for the last 5 years in rural Canada. I doubt this is the first 10GBps commercial broadband network.
- This is cellular though
- I'm paying 160$cad for 300mbps, regular GPON service in rural :(
  
  Fibre access is not evenly distributed, some places only have satellite access as an option. Meanwhile Rogers just ran fibre down our road so now we have the option to use Bell or Rogers.

And I'm still on DSL, no more than 10 Mbps... Fuck us rural people, right?
- You need to look into LTE and 5G modems
  
  Nobody gives us service out here, I've checked with Verizon, TMobile, and AT&T. Best I have is my cellphone, which I can use as a hotspot, and it's typically only on 4G/LTE. I've gotten 5G connections a few times, but rarely.
  It took me 2 days to download a 90 GB game, and I can't play anything online because the connection will just drop.

I would settle for 100x slower but uncensored Internet.
- In this point, China isn't worse than the US currently.
- Where do you live? Can't be the US.

The lack of down/up symmetry (at at 10:1 ratio, no less) is rather gobsmacking in 2025. Even here in SV, where internet service has historically lagged behind the rest of the world, I now have 5 gigabits of symmetric fiber service for a reasonable price.
- This (asymetric bandwidth) and breaking inbound ports and breaking multicast is how they can sell you solution to fill the gap.
  
  In other words, offering tiers of service which are symmetric or close the gap? For what it's worth, I seem to be a poor technologist, since 5 gigabits/sec is vastly more than I need, but my ISP keeps encouraging me to upgrade to 7 gigabits. It's nice to know that I could run a skyscraper or a medium sized subdivision if I wanted to, however!
- South Vietnam?
  
  Heh, no, Silicon Valley. Rather surprisingly, internet service was awful here for many years.

These guys are doing like the Americans with first flight, first phone call, first recorded conversation, first anything.

I'm in Central Wyoming and could call my ISP right now to order a 10Gbs upgrade. My 2Gbs is plenty fast enough though.
- This is 10G cellular
- Shit, my 450/450 dedicated is good enough for a family of 5 with data hungry kids. I’ve also had a similar experience on 500/500 shared. Fiber of course. Screw cable.

I swear I thought korea had this.
- This is cellular
- Even the US has this in places. Definitely not a first in the word situation other than what China tells its citizens.
  
  yeah it made me sort unconfident but like I thought korea had it back quite a ways. like significantly before covid.

At the moment I'm happy with my old school 600Mb conection
- The best I can do for the price and consistency is Verizon 5G home internet and it’ll fluctuate between 80Mbps and 300Mbps down. Upload at best 30Mbps. Not lucky to live in a fiber neighborhood. All the cable providers are worse than 5G alternatives though I’m certain the 5G services will get worse with age
- Cry's in 100/20Mb

The only reason to have such fast internet at home is for torrents. Nothing else will saturate 10G, even with several people using it.
- It's not even for the home lol, this is cellular. and yeah I cant find a reason for it, one of the reasons mentioned is medical procedures as the network only adds a 3ms delay
- My ssd on its own is way faster than that, and I have four of them.
- I WFH for a company where we're regularly moving files and packages in the 100s of GBs. I'm already on 2.5Gb and and I still ahev to wait 10-20 minutes at times. I also share a connection with my wife who is a CAD designer and 3D Space modeler for an architect who also works from home who also has similar upload & download times for some of her work.
  That's just us. There's plenty of other professionals out there that work with large files between teams either as a job or hobby from home.
  10Gb has a market for home users. It may be limited at this time, but it's there.
- Sometimes the reason there is no use for it is because the data was unavailable. With larger data throughput, more and better services may become available.
  Even when you consider common stuff like gaming, it often takes a while to fully download or update games.

That cable/wiring setup is going to be expensive
- It's cellular

It’s so fast, that nobody can afford it. If more than five people have it, it’s because they are the billionaires that owned the network.
That’s why it’s so amazing, you won’t have it for 20 years.
- You really don't need to be a billionaire to afford crazy internet speeds (if you want them). You can get a 100G port from pretty much any ISP for ~$8k/mo, or even cheaper if you are willing to have a bandwidth cap. Then assuming you really want it, you'd have to pay to get the fiber laid to your home, which can be a few hundred thousand dollars depending on how far away you are. Of course this is ridiculous for home internet, but it is within reach for people that are way poorer then billionaires.

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