[LINK] How fast is the NBN?

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 1/03/2016 8:57 AM, Tom Worthington wrote
> Speeds will increase, but people want stuff they can carry around with
> them, not have it stuck on a desk at home.

A lot of people watch movies on their large screen TVs.

In a household with say two HD TVs and maybe a couple of movies a night,
over a month that could easily be 300-500GBytes plus.

That's a terrible waste of radio spectrum, even it it could handle it.

IMHO the solution should fit the problem. Fixed TVs (probably the
biggest user of bandwidth) are best suited to fixed telecoms. People who
are mobile need more flexible solutions. It is highly unlikely that the
bandwidth needs of a mobile user will ever be the same as that of a
domestic, business premises user.

> It is just old homes where it is not be
> worth installing new cable. 

Politically, that's likely to be unjustifiable.

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brd

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