[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Craig Sanders]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 05:08:16PM +1000, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> Which is why we *should* be building for the future. I would have
> though that Linkers would have been at the vanguard of high bandwidth,
> and championing efforts to build better systems (and cheaper, if
> possible).

i'm all in favour of high bandwidth to the home or office, FTTH (i think
FTTN is a waste of money on infrastructure that will need to be replaced
with FTTH in less than a decade).  the faster, the better.

i just think that videophones are not the killer application that
justifies it. i think they are, for the most part, a solution in
desperate need of a problem.


and it's not technology, or even expense holding us back. it's monopoly
interests kicking and screaming and lobbying hard to hold on to their
monopoly. they know that eventually they will inevitably lose, but they
want to hold on to it for as long as possible.

that's why we have volume charging in australia, and it's why telstra
charges for upload as well as download volume. they're STILL trying to
force the internet (an inherently P2P communications medium) into the
same old service-provider vs consumer model of old media. it doesn't
fit, never has fit, and never will fit....but they can drag it out for
at least a few more years before conceding to the inevitable.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>