[LINK] How fast is the NBN?

[Janet Hawtin]

Wireless depends on the bands being available for public use? If we want to
be planning for larger wireless public bandwidth should we be tracking
squatted commercial wireless bands and reclaiming it for public use?

On 3 March 2016 at 13:27, David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name> wrote:

> 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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