Mark Addinall
CDMA1X and 1EV-DO is however available at much better prices. In fact for 1Gb download at 512bits a month at $49-month its fantastic. Plus ISDN is available much more widely than ASDL G.Lite.
OK we have a copper loop to people in the countrytown. We probably don't have it in the sourounding country because it costs $4000-$10,000 to put in some of those 'farms'.
Given the choice of 1 Spending lots of money on an average wire based phone system with an an average cellphone system (spotty coverage) 2 Having a fantastic cellphone system with two or more towers for overlapping coverage and integrated broadband bit a non existent fixed line system I'd pick option 2.
I'd choose 2 all the time. Using a fixed antena (basically setting your house up with a car kit and an external 3dB or preferably 5dB) antena mounted on your roof gives fantastic coverage: it typically doubles range and therby quadrouples land area covered.
(Not much education of the public in this area though it is widely available info for those looking for it)
Actually they double (go up 100%) though the implication is that they
1 Free PC to PC VOiP 2 A local phone number so that people with fixed land lines can call you is $35-year (any country in the world) 3 Calling just aout anyone in the world is 2.8c minute. 4 Chat is included 5 Visual Calls are comming.
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Well,their tune is starting to change. Wireless is now getting rid of latency issues. IEEE 802.16 WiMAX has very little latency and the IEEE 802.20 has effectively no latency (OK a ms) and 15km non lline of sight. Also flexibility is there for moving premises.
WiMAX is being deplyed in New Orelans to speed recovery of data and voice infrastructure after Katrina.
Interestingly the OFDM technology (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplixing) that achieves extremely high densities of data that is going to be in both 802.20 and 802.16 is likely to be incorporated by Qualcomm (who owns the patents for CDMA) and will likely may switch to this new modulation scheme for its next evolution of EV-DO i.e. CDMA phone networks will use OFDM which means that telstra has a way of increasing 1EV-DO data throughput by another order of magnitute to get 2EV-DO!
(OFDM is the subject of csiro patents I think and there's a big patent war about to break out that looks like CSIRO versus Intel, HP and Microsoft)
And these technologies can also use phase pointed 'smart antena' to achieve enother oder of magnitude increase in throughput.
1.5Mbit broadband is not much better than 256kbit. Only good for surfing fast. We'll need 8 Mbit or so for video on demand. May as well go with one of the fancy wireless systems whether its WiMAX, HSCPDA (the 3GSM-W-CDMA data upgrade) or OFDM sitting on top of CDMA. There is even Mitsubishis 22Mbit system of using powerlines being trialed in Tasmania. (the astronomers hate it)
Only if you are really in the stix.
You can get $29-month ADSL from telstra (a rip of with very exensives SPAM and virus filtering options) most ISP's will charge $19.95 month including POP mail accounts, news groups etc.
I've just read somewhere that Unwired claim to be getting about 17% penetration in Sydney irrespective of whether ADSL or Cable is available in the area.
It's not quite like that. Check out: " TowerStream Brings T1 Access to New York City "
There are also two versions of Telstras 1EV-DO out. One version uses a PCMCIA card for a notebook and cost heaps to buy and run and the other uses a larger book sized modem and its comparable to ADSL in acquisition and opperating costs though a little slow in the upload.
I live in the city, have half a
It sounds like your stuck with 1.5Mbit download and 500kbits upload untill ADSL 2+ comes along.
At least WiMAx will be able to give you 8 or more Mbits and offer it to people further out in the periphery of towns.
I just think wireless's time has come and interesting things can be done with it that we should be advancing.
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