[LINK] NBN Wireless?

[Jim Birch]

On 6 February 2013 17:24, Stephen wrote:

Hope that NBNCo may be able to service wireless dongles in future, they are
> surely convenient.
>

I doubt this will happen for a long time.  Firstly, it clobbers the telcos'
ability to sell very expensive data to their mobile clients.  Anyone can
onsell NBN connectivity whether they happen to own a billion dollar mobile
phone network or not.  They would squeal.  Loudly.

Politics aside, there are technical issues that would block this.  The NBN
wireless provides a specified bandwidth per customer.  It would be
impossible to offer this to itinerant customers without a massively
overengineered system.  Also, a much higher transmit power and more
elaborate base antenna would be needed to provide a reliable service to a
small dongle inside a building compared to a relatively large roof-mounted
antenna.  Dongles aren't part of the NBN wireless spec.  NBN do support
larger fixed internal antennas but only where the local signal strength and
building characteristics allow it.


Jim