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China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds (www.techradar.com)
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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah not one soul uses the internet over there, but they're doing it anyway just to shit on Verizon

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I probably shouldn't have posted it that way. I've been to Bejing, but I picture a lot of rural rice farmers just NOT part of the Internet and of course with censorship rampant, I just figure, why so fast? Sounds like flexing. But maybe I'm wrong.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

They're probably not building out 50 Gbps to the rice farmers

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Even rice farmers watch Netflix.