[LINK] How fast is the NBN?

[Janet Hawtin]

NBN trials fibre-to-the-premises
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/nbn-trials-cheaper-allfibre-option-20160302-gn8cj3.html

On 3 March 2016 at 13:54, Janet Hawtin <janet at hawtin.net.au> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>> David Boxall                    |  My figures are just as good
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