[LINK] That Nick Ross article about the NBN

[Kim Holburn]

Thanks Nick,

I'll have a read.

Kim

On 2013/Mar/12, at 1:11 PM, Nick Ross wrote:

> Not quite Kim,
> 
> That was an older one which coincided with the end of the Coalition saying
> - wireless will replace the NBN. I wasn't the only one writing that at the
> time, but this one aimed to be all encompassing and definitive.
> 
> This is THE article :-
> 
> http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2013/02/21/3695094.htm
> 
> N
> 
> On 11 March 2013 22:02, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:
> 
>> That everyone has been discussing.  Discussion on mediawatch tonight.
>> 
>> http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2012/06/14/3524848.htm
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>>> 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."
>>> 
>>> 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."
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>>> 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:-
>>> 
>>> "There is no such thing as a mobile network... the network is not
>> mobile. I am. The network is fixed"
>> 
>> 
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