On 10/09/13 7:50 PM, Pidgorny, Slav (GEUS) wrote:
Touché?
I'm surprised to find out that I'm still the only one using 4G, but I do have contingency plan in case others join: I have reasonable-speed DSL connection that is sufficient for what I do plus HD TV streaming. This service has improved over past few years - became faster and cheaper - and taxpayer didn't pay for it.
So once again, why should I pay for your ability to have HD YouTube in every room? You won't be the only one on 4G for long. 4G is radio, radio is a shared medium, so it gets bogged down as the number of users increases. Fancy techniques limit this to some extent, but you eventually run up against this limit. NBN helps in a lot of ways...
Firstly, decent speeds for everyone. I get only 3.5M on ADSL here, and I have to be selective about which modem I use (some will give me 1Mbps... and that's assuming it can maintain sync! Secondly, all those other benefits of fibre - electrical isolation, future upgradeability, etc. Thirdly, clever use of the NBN could help YOU, the wireless user. If femtocells can be installed where there is a NBN connection, then those phones on that premises don't need to use the main local cell to get their service. That means more bandwidth for you to do whatever. Whether this can happen will be up to the telcos (and possibly the regulators). Femtocells increase mobile network capacity by massively increasing frequency reuse, which means greater total bandwidth for mobile users. -- 73 de Tony VK3JED/VK3IRL http://vkradio.com