Not much of a theory, but VOip was certainly ignored by Telstra for years,as was any xDSL technology, rather Telstra wanting to keep people around ISDN.
There is nothing "rapid" about the development of new satellite netorks. People have been fighting for space on PanAmSat 2, PanAmSat 8 etc. for years.
Hah. The rule is, you choose satellite if you live in an area where there is no copper xDSL infrastructure available, no direct cable and you need comparitivle 'fast' internet access. Copper xDSL or cable will ALWAYS give you better service if you live in an area that has access to infrastructure, and for the foreseeable future, satellite bandwidth will be abour twice as expensive. iiNet and others are installing community based high speed DSLAMs around Australia, providing a service of up to 12000kbps. Try that with a bird link!
They already are, but for different reasons. The current infrastructure owned by Telstra CAN NOT be re-built at today's land-labour prices. The technology has dropped in price, laying cable however has not got cheaper, neither has purchasing inner-city real estate.
Once Telstra is sold, irt is gone forever. And as our tellecommunication network is the life blood of Australia, we carry a HUGE business risk by relenqueshing control over the SLAs to the community (ies).
Mark Addinall.
