1Gbps Mobile
see article: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/mwc-2016-telstra-announces-1gbps-network-coming-in-2016-20160222-gn0s3y.html Telstra will launch a 1Gbps network..in late 2016..maximum upload speeds of 150Mbps..will include a Netgear/Telstra 1Gbps hotspot device In case you missed it, this is huge. This shows the rapid progress of wireless technology, which at the time of NBN Mk I, was very much in its infancy. The NBN religion gave Telstra... View Article
Telstra will launch a 1Gbps network..in late 2016..maximum upload speeds of 150Mbps..will include a Netgear/Telstra 1Gbps hotspot device
In case you missed it, this is huge. This shows the rapid progress of wireless technology, which at the time of NBN Mk I, was very much in its infancy.
The NBN religion gave Telstra over $10bn, and guess what they’re doing with it? Building what people want, fast speeds with no lines.
I can hear the NBN faithful now, “you need to have fixed line!”, “but where does the backhaul come from?”, “wireless only compliments fixed line”. Well they’re wrong.
Some high density businesses will need dedicated 100Mbps / 1Gbps 1:1 for the masses of employees sharing the single connection.
But how about the bulk of the 10M premises in Australia? With freed wireless spectrum, use of the 5G range of spectrums, and promising rise of pCell technology, there will be very little business case to support fixed line infrastructure when the consumer can be satisfied with wireless alone. Yes there will be fibre behind it, but Telco’s will pay for it, not the tax payer.
The current NBN FTTN plan is a good compromise. It would have been better to scrap it entirely but that was politically impossible and difficult to sell to a media dominated by the technomotivated (big shiny fun things) ICT industry. I look forward to a wireless untethered future at full speed.