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

[Richard Chirgwin]

I love the invincibility of people like this to the most egregious of 
errors.

Here, the same clown predicts the death of social media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpGuymdvk0w

Here, he tells us that the carbon tax is a threat to the Australian way 
of life:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/carbon-tax-puts-hazelwood-in-the-gun-peter-ryan/story-fn7x8me2-1226092711113

Would it surprise you to know that a critic of the carbon tax leads 
research finding that Australians don't believe in climate change?
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/ipad/nation-goes-off-global-warming/story-fn6t2xlc-1226320777816

He gets paid to teach governments stuff:
http://www.ssa.vic.gov.au/public-administration/ssa-anzsog-partnership/calendar-of-events.html

"David Chalke entertainingly showed that regional is in fact the new 
normal and regional Australia leads the national mood."
https://secure.twodeforce.com.au/commercialbreak

And yet, if I search "David Chalke" site:qmr.com.au what I find is a 
modern market research company whose Website turns up embarrassing 
messes on Google.

Of course, it doesn't credit News that it took a social researcher with 
no technical understanding as gospel, but we know that News is about 
regime change.

RC

On 14/04/12 2:20 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> 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.
>
> ...
>