I think Fibre or DSL to the home, or node, would be absolutely awesome, but for many people I just don't really see it happening, I really hope it does, but...<br><br>If I think of my friends who live in regional Victoria:
<br><br>A lives in a semi-rural street 6kms from the town centre (the town has 2000 people) and they are on a pair-gain and can't get DSL. The best they can get is 28k modem speed. Telstra have replied to them that there is no plan to ever put DSL on there due to the low density vs. excessive cost. There are about 12 homes along that street.
<br><br>B lives in a street with 4 homes on acre blocks, about 4kms from town (about 6000 people), its an old part of town, and again Telstra says the density vs cost is far too great to put DSL in. They can get modem speeds no greater than 18kps, and they have tried all the molds testing etc. The lines are old. Telstra says they can get Satellite, but its expensive and too laggy for VOIP.
<br><br>In these couple of examples, I can only imagine a WiMAX modem running at 6Mb/s (or even 1Mb/s!) would be an unbelievable improvement. And if it runs at 12Mb/s and is available within 2 years....<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 6/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tony Langdon, VK3JED</b> <<a href="mailto:vk3jed@optushome.com.au">vk3jed@optushome.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 01:37 AM 6/19/2007, Dean Collins wrote:<br>>As it's still early in the announcement I think it's a moot point to<br>>complain what they are/are not rolling out.<br>><br>>Anything that is able to increase to connectivity for remote/rural
<br>>people above dial up is a good thing.<br>><br>>My point was people seem to be making a lot of assumptions already about<br>>this announcement without a lot of factual data (both gov/corp and<br>>public)
<br><br>This is true, but I'll join the ranks of the skeptics unless someone<br>can prove otherwise. Radio has limited bandwidth, and WiMax, like<br>GSM, UMTS, HSDPA and other cellular technologies requires a lot of<br>
serious backhaul bandwidth, especially when you want to service<br>thousands of users.<br><br>I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I am rather skeptical.<br><br>73 de VK3JED<br><a href="http://vkradio.com">http://vkradio.com
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