[MLB-WIRELESS] WiMAX to go Australia wide?

[Dean Collins]

Yep totally agree about bandwidth monitoring for residential internet
access in Australia being outdated - though I think this is more an
issue around lack of competition than actual base charges.

And yep you are right - no reason to host locally in Australia, far
cheaper to hire bandwidth in the USA (though again I think this is due
to increased competition more than anything else).

I'm finding a real 'mind shift' in the last 12 months when I help my
Australian clients about 'right sourcing' resources.

Whether a web site is hosted in Australia, USA or Europe doesn't really
matter. Likewise when dealing with internet delivered intellectual
property it doesn't matter where the 'ip ownership' is incorporated. 

A number of countries offer various advantages depending on your
requirements.

REPEAT AFTER ME - THIS IS NOT ABOUT TAX EVASION.

This is simply that should you be developing a technology that doesn't
require physical delivery of anything then you have the freedom to
choose the domicile of that intellectual property asset.

When dealing with anything on the internet you need to ask yourself does
this really need to be located here.

EG does my call really need to be answered in Sydney or does Singapore
make more sense. Or if I'm responding to my clients email questions can
I deliver these out of the Czech republic faster/cheaper/better etc.

As for bandwidth access, I think a lot will change in the next few years
- as you are not really reliant on your ISP for email, spam control, web
hosting or even voip services there is a real opportunity for fat dumb
raw IP pipes to deliver everything you need and then for you to chose al
la carte as to which vendor provides you your other services.


 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Pty Ltd
dean at cognation.net 
+1-212-203-4357 Ph
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).

 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Langdon, VK3JED [mailto:vk3jed at optushome.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2007 9:51 AM
> To: Dean Collins; David Ashburner; Melb Wireless
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] WiMAX to go Australia wide?
> 
> At 11:05 PM 6/19/2007, Dean Collins wrote:
> 
> >Their attitudes to restricting access to copper and exchanges is
what's
> >holding Australia back.
> >
> >There are areas in NY that are less populated than where I live in
> >Sydney however I can sign up for 8mb cable with no issues at all.
> >
> >Stick that in your data statistics argument.
> 
> I tend to agree with you.  The observations I notice most are that
> (1) Many people in outer suburbs have issues getting access to
> broadband (this has improved in recent years but still a way to go).
> 
> (2) Bandwidth costs in Australia, even in the major centres appear to
> be around 10x that of many overseas countries (US, UK, etc).  I came
> to this conclusion after pricing comparable hosting services here and
> overseas.  While in many cases I could find similar monthly charges,
> the included monthly data transfer for Australian based services was
> around 10% of any of the overseas offerings.  This has led to the
> strange situation that I now spend more time administering servers in
> the US than ones located locally, because my clients are hiring where
> it's cost effective.
> 
> 73 de VK3JED
> http://vkradio.com