John Linton ....than it has been seen to be at any time in the past.....unless you are technology challenged.
Maybe its a 'slow technology news period of the year' but I have read a deluge of articles about 4G and LTE deployments over the past 5 weeks as well as the usual articles put out by the various hardware developers regarding new high speed records being set by the latest developments of wireless modems and other devices using LTE or 4G. Of course, the Australian communications media continues to report the ignorant opinions of either just plain ignorant people or the vested interests of just plain ignorant Labor politicians and their even more ignorant running dogs who to say they are technology challenged would be to wildly over state their comprehension of communications technologies.....or perhaps their abilities in any area of 'knowledge' other than self advancement.
The most information about actual deployment and usage of LTE/4G comes from the US media and the particularly useful reporting comes from the most conservative of that media who have very knowledgeable contributors that actually have backgrounds in communications technology going back a long way. What they are reporting is that the three major carriers in the USA who provide data and voice services to residential users in all of the major cities across the USA are seeing rapid declines in fixed line services and rapid increases in wireless services - for voice and data and with data usage over wireless devices growing at rates between four and ten times the rate that data over fixed lines has ever grown and is predicted to grow even faster in the coming year.
I made the point, the self evident to any one with more than a handful of neurons, some four years ago when Exetel began to look for a wireless 'solution' for residential customers that wherever wireless technology was in 2007 it represented only a tiny fraction of the capabilities that would be developed over the next five years and that, like all technologies with a world wide agreed development path it would exponentially improve, in terms of both capabilities and cost, as each year passed. Now, unless you are a Labor politician or a thirteen year old male, you would know that scenario applies to every aspect of life and there is no aspect of life where it applies more than in technology and it applies to no technology more than to the silicon, or artificial silicon, based technologies with their year on year track record of breaking the 'laws of physics'.....which of course were never 'laws' at all....simply convenient theories that met some tests at some point in time.
So, since I first started looking at, working, wireless broad band solutions seriously four years ago we have seen the speed of actual, deliverable, user services increase by 10 times and the cost of those services fall by 80 - 90%. Such figures are not really meaningful except as an indication of trends because the future of wireless, as mapped out in published documentation, is for wireless broadband to improve by those percentages each 3 years for the next nine years given that the various carriers around the world are capable of developing the commercial cases within their individual organisations to deliver such services. If you are a technology illiterate like Krudd, Ms Faustus and Stupid Stephen (who only parrot what their 'departments prepare for them to justify whatever today's political position for them is) you conveniently ignore the 'facts' that are widely distributed in the world's media and even the statistics published by Australia's monopoly carrier and proceed to spend tens of billions of taxes ensuring that a new government owned monopoly is created using the wrong technology to ensure Australia is locked in to the wrong, very limited and expensive, future....based on election winning major lies and the subsequent consequences of being a pig ignorant liar (Krudd closely imitated by Ms Faustus who immediately demonstrated she would promise anything, to anyone, to become 'prime minister').
Fortunately for Australians, technology is not influenced by cheap (or that should be very, very expensive) politics, ignorant electorates and unprincipled self aggrandisers.
I wonder whether it has crossed the mind of any of the 'NBN2' promoters that there is an absolutely fundamental major error of commercial judgment for a reason that has always 'dogged' the residential communications industry in this country? What would you think the single most important thing that Telstra would wish for if it could have only one wish? Do you think it would wish to have the USO removed? I couldn't possibly know but I would think that would be top of its list. Well, due to the ultimate stupidity of political vain glory, Telstra will get its most valuable wish - the government becomes responsible for the expenses of providing and maintaining services to remote and regional areas of Australia and Telstra (and other providers) can use their own wireless networks to sell to customers in the major Australian cities where population density makes the costs a fraction of those outside the cities and an almost infinite lesser cost than providing services in remote areas.
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