The new generation or the Millennials are after speed! They need everything faster. Nobody has the time to wait for anything and when it comes to the Internet, it is no different. Everyone wants their internet to be fast and stable. Frequent disconnections disrupt whatever they are doing over the Internet and slow connections make it difficult to fetch data online.
The dial-up internet that connected via the telephone cables that became popular during the 90s was quite slow and highly unstable. Moreover, back then people were quite dependent on the land phones and the internet blocked the landline and vice versa. Then the cable internet came, which used the television cable for bringing in the connection. This is still a popular option in most parts of the world.
With more options on the internet to learn, work and to play, a faster and more reliable connection was required just as the Millennials would prefer them to be. They wanted the speed to watch movies and play games. They needed them to stream e-learning videos and for online education too. Whether it was work or play, the need for speed of the Internet was obvious. Speed and stability were the major requirements for commercial internet which the IT giants and the multi-chain retails badly needed for normal functioning. They depended on optical fiber cables which provided them the required speed and stability but at a higher cost. The MNCs could easily afford them as they would bill their clients after considering this cost and recover the same without fail. But it took many more years and another set of Millennials who realized the market for a faster internet connection among the residential users.
A few years back, when the battle was fierce to win over the residential customers with low-cost cable internet subscriptions, the smartphones started invading the ground and they too needed to be connected to the internet to function faster and better. Mobile data was quite expensive and they wanted to use the home Wi-Fi while they were at home to make the most of the mobile media. This got the internet much slower and that’s when Bigpipe Internet came up with affordable fiber optics Internet for the residential users. It became an instant hit as the rates were as competitive as the conventional cable internet but this was much faster and more stable. The timing of their entry was perfect as that’s the time the Internet of Things started trending too in the Australian households.
Australian homes were getting equipped with smart devices like smart TV, smart Air conditioner and smart whatever else can be and they all needed the Internet to become ‘smart’! With fiber optics internet, the speed could go as much as 10 Mbps to 1000 Mbps which got the Millennials go crazy and get them installed at home and it worked perfectly with their smart devices too. Within a few months, the fiber optics Internet became the buzzword and the other rival ISPs also were forced to adopt this newer technology. Now the concept has really caught up with the ISPs in many parts of the world and they are finding other ways to lure the customers subscribe to their services. Naked broadband is another option possible with fiber optics that the ISPs use to attract customers. Under this option, the customer does not have to subscribe to a land phone as the fiber optics connection has nothing to do with telephone or television cable! In fact, within a few years’ you will be able to connect your phone and TV to your fiber optics broadband cable directly and access the channels seamlessly. Though this technology is already available, it is quite expensive now and within a couple of years, it will become a common way to get access to the television channels.