Singapore wants to enable mass market access to speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second in the second half of this decade, said Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong at Budget 2024.
New: You can now listen to articles.SINGAPORE: Ultra-high definition videos on multiple devices. Smoother online gaming. Virtual reality experiences. These are just some things internet users could enjoy as Singapore pushes to accelerate broadband speeds in homes.
The upgrade comes as Singapore announces a massive S$1 billion investment into its National AI Strategy 2.0. Part of the investment, to be injected over the next five years, will be to secure access to advanced chips crucial to AI development and deployment. He listed the bandwidth of commonly used applications – Zoom uses 10 megabits per second , Netflix 4K uses 15Mbps and online gaming takes up 100Mbps.
"In online gaming, higher network speeds help to decrease lag, meaning you won't get kicked from the server or get killed by the powerful mob boss," said Associate Professor Mehul Motani. One of Singapore's four telcos, SIMBA, told CNA it is already delivering 2.5Gbps speeds and is looking at how it can provide upgrades"as quickly as possible" by working with the government.
Singapore generally has excess capacity in the form of fibres that are not used. These can be tapped on to provide additional capacity, said Prof Sikdar.
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