[LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

[David]

Hi Marghanita,

On Friday, 1 June 2018 10:44:05 AEST Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

> There are Wireless microwave & Satellite links within our network, we still watch tv and listen to radio wirelessly  and it can be deployed to customers quickly (as long as there is coverage).
> 
> I have resisted the TV coaxial cable/pay TV offering from FOXTEL. Telstra is supposedly connecting our property to the NBN sometime soon and then possibly turning off our copper connection.
> 
> And just reading your latest post - I rest my case, we could use our spectrum much more effectively.

Yes, I'm certainly not against 3G / 4G mobile and similar technology.  The NBN uses something like 4G with a dedicated channel per user in the outlying villages and surrounding areas here in the Southern Highlands.  But I wonder what applications those proselytizing 5G expect to take up the bandwidth?  So far it seems Linkers have no suggestions.

However 5G might offer corporates like Telstra an opportunity to compete with the NBN using 5G wireless in cherry-picked high density areas, leaving the NBN to service the rest.  Ironically, the wheel would then have turned a full circle, with the Rudd's NBN occupying the same role as Howard's "three amigos" version of Telstra.

You may not lose your POTS service for quite a while if your NBN connection is via HFC.  The POTS connection often seems to remain available even on an FTTN connection.

David