[LINK] That Nick Ross article about the NBN

[Kim Holburn]

That everyone has been discussing.  Discussion on mediawatch tonight.

http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2012/06/14/3524848.htm

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> Of particular note is the following. Pepper says he talks to governments all over the world. "Is it going to be fibre or 4G? The answer is both. You're going to need fibre to connect all those base stations... a lot of industry people aren't waking up to it."
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> He goes on, "Telcos used to think WiFi was their enemy. Now it's their friend." Kevin Bloch continued, "We spoke to Telstra who said that they didn't need to think about this as their 3G network was the best in the world. But it's all changed in the last 12 months."

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> With so much talk about the growth in wireless and wireless futures it's easy to forget that WiFi is simply a way of accessing the nearby wired network, wirelessly. As Pepper puts it:-
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> "There is no such thing as a mobile network... the network is not mobile. I am. The network is fixed"


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