Brazil towards fast internet connection

This is great news for me and my brazilan folks, Brazil is going towards fast internet for a reasonable price. Two weeks ago the brazilian cable company NET has released 2Mb/4Mb/8Mb internet speed for a low price, while other companies are offering speed up to 1Mb for R$200 (U$83), this new service will cost 2Mb/300Kbps for R$79 (U$33), 4Mb/600Kbps for R$99 (U$41) and 8Mb/1.2Mb for R$199 (U$82). The only concern is that with this cable company will limit bandwidth, 20Gb for 2Mb, 40Gb for 4Mb and 60Gb for 8Mb. And that is not much, for those who are 24/7 downloading things on bittorrent or in other P2P softwares.

In other hand, now other companies already started researching about upgrading their internet speed. All this competition will get us better internet speed and services.

Last week I called my internet provider asking them about what are they doing about this situation. First they told me 2Mb connection would be released by this week, but when I called, they said the tests with 2Mb ADSL didn’t work fine, so they don’t have any prospect to release 2Mb or faster speed yet. So I’ve to continue with my 600/512Kbps ADSL, and I don’t feel like changing ADSL technology for Cable Modem. I’ve read in some foruns in internet, that costumers were organizing to call everyday and complain about this situation. Well, all I can do now is wait.

Obs: I know this is not the fastest internet speed avalible worldwide, but its a big change, comparing to the brazilian reality and size.