On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 07:36:11PM +1000, Pidgorny, Slav (GEUS) wrote:
Your 4G is all very nice until every child and their dog in your neighbourhood start using it for youtube. Then it's useless.
Which is why we need NBN: HD YouTube in every room. No wonder NBN is universally popular
it's popular because it's one of the first real useful infrastructure projects that any state or fedeeral government has attempted in decades. tollways and other PPP ripoffs don't count because they're tax-payer funded but end up privately owned so we get to pay to build them and then pay again to use them. public-private partnerships are a scam to defraud the public.
- it's the biggest entertainment project in history.
perhaps that is what most people will (would have) used it for. however, unlike *any* wireless technology, the bandwidth isn't shared with hundreds or thousands of other users so other, more worthwhile, uses won't become impossible on a FTTH network. telecommuting, for instance, and small and/or home business services, and the much touted tele-medicine and distance education benefits. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>