[LINK] How fast is the NBN?

[David Boxall]

On 3/03/2016 9:11 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> On 01/03/16 15:56, David Boxall wrote:
>
>> Can you substantiate your implication that the only demand that's
>> increasing is mobile? ...
>
> The intended implication was that mobile demand would make fixed data
> demand largely irrelevant.
>
> ACAM reported that in December 2014, 21% of adult Australians were
> mobile-only Internet users, up 2% from the previous year. Younger
> Australians are more mobile and I suggest as they get older they will
> stay mobile and fixed Internet use will decline in importance:
> http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/engage-blogs/engage-blogs/Research-snapshots/Australians-get-mobile
> ...
<sigh>

There are others on this list better qualified than I to unpick that 
cherry. What I do get out of this is that both mobile and fixed line 
demand are rising exponentially.

So, a little thought experiment:
- Two networks; one all fibre, the other solely wireless.
- To level the playing field, we'll make the distances 100 kilometres 
for wireless and 1000 for fibre.
- Begin adding 8k video streams (this is not meant to be far into the 
future, so we won't go beyond 8k).

Which will reach its limits first?

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