Not much of a change. They still do the same thing. They allow you to talk to people from a bobile base, as long as you are in a coverage area. Today's models have more prappery, granted. Dunno about you but I have never played a Java game on my telephone. I I couldn't care less if it can beep the "silly frog" at me. Frankly, I'd rather it didn't. Sat phones for REAL coverage are still bloody expensive. They are smaller, smaller than the ones available in the early 80's for sure. I bought one of the first Motorala "bat phones" in 1991, nearly a decade and a half ago, and not much has changed since then. Telco's have learn't how to value add, and occasionaly develop a new product, SMS being the most notable.
I dunno. I have been using sat technology that hasn't changed at all in a decade.
Well, some things are ;-)
Some sweeping statements. Do you have any references?
"Mercy" is an emotive word. None of the 20,000 switches and routers I was involved with at Telstra were manufactured here.
Well, don't hold your breath for dozens, hundreds or thousands of new birds. And we don't really need them. There's plenty of good cable, copper and fibre in Australia, just none of it in the bush. Rural Australia have been able to hook up to a sat service for many years. The big layers just make it expensive.
Nothing makes Telstra look good at the moment, with the exception of the buttET of the existing infrastructure.
Telstra could do with some decent management. Grown here I might add.
Mark Addinall.
