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ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over (arstechnica.com)

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Giga is the Spanish word, so they might just use it because it's more bilingual friendly

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[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

I doubt it has anything to do with Spanish. The G in Gbps stands for giga because that's the SI prefix for 10 to the power of 9 or 1000 bigger than mega. Calling it a gig is just a lazy wording.

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[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

I call it gig, it's a pretty common abbreviation IMO, like 32 gigs of ram.

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