[LINK] Back in your box: NBN Co shuts down wireless “expert”

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

Back in your box: NBN Co shuts down wireless “expert”
Delimiter
Renai LeMay
Friday, April 13, 2012
http://delimiter.com.au/2012/04/13/back-in-your-box-nbn-co-shuts-down-wireless-expert/

news The National Broadband Network Company has shot down in flames 
inaccurate claims by a non-technical analyst this week that all 
Australian telecommunications would be based on wireless technologies by 
the time construction of the predominantly fibre-based NBN was completed.

In an article published by News.com.au this morning, David Chalke, a 
self-professed ‘social analyst’ with Quantum Market Research, claimed 
that the NBN’s fibre infrastructure was irrelevant. “Everything is going 
to be wireless by the time they’ve dug up the roads and stuffed the 
pipes,” he said. “It will be too late, it’s all going to be mobile and 
wireless in the future.”

It is believed that Chalke’s statement is highly inaccurate, with the 
global telecommunications industry universally in agreement that future 
telecommunications services will see a combination of fixed and wireless 
services used to provide access, as it is today. In addition, local 
commentators on the NBN have repeatedly emphasised that even leading 
mobile networks such as Telstra’s Next G network will increasingly 
depend on fibre-optic backbone links to mobile phone base stations in 
future, as they largely do today. The increasing popularity of online 
video streaming and conferencing services is one of the key factors 
which is placing a heavy burden on telecommunications infrastructure. 
Fixed infrastructure is best suited for delivering this kind of content.

In a statement issued this afternoon, NBN Co said Chalke’s claim was 
simply inaccurate. “Recent claims that “the rise of mobile internet 
through smartphones and tablets threatens to make the NBN a waste of 
money” and “out of date” were not supported by the facts,” the company said.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email:   brd at iimetro.com.au
website: www.drbrd.com



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