Team achieves world's fastest data transmission rate using photonics (msn.com) Engineers found a cheap easy way to use a laser on a cellphone, to modulate the signal, significantly reducing noise enough to produce an outrageous 240gb/s transmission rate. Normal electricity moves at maybe 20% of the speed of light, and is noisy, so they used a tiny laser to clean up the noise. 2gb is an 8k TV, but its not likely to be built into TVs. Very likely, this is a cheap stop gap measure just for the telecoms, so they don't have to change the infrastructure anytime in the foreseeable future. However, it could also be used for wi-fi routers, allowing Micrsoft to certify them all, since the Chinese have been using and abusing them.
