On 26/02/2016 8:30 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: > > > The first mile of fiber is cheap to install. The expensive part is getting > the fiber > from the street into people's homes. It is much easier to put an antenna on a > pole > outside in the street. Easier? perhaps. Cheaper? probably not, since you've got to do a truck-roll or two anyway.
How about this Tom - deploy this radio network of yours, and we'll appoint you Chief Maintenance Officer. You'll be responsible for the cost of the vast fleet of repair vans, spares holdings, warehousing, and technicians to keep all those radio transceivers and antennas all running, fixing all the blown power supplies and transceivers after lightning strikes within CSG timeframes, and then you can press the 'go' button each time the firmware in the radio transceivers on the poles needs to be updated and reflashed, hoping you've ensured compatibility with the units inside the homes so that all the millions of radio links come back up again once their reboot cycle completes - because you're also responsible for the call-centre that will take the complaint calls when the radio links break. > Six laptops seems a lot for the average home of less than three people. I > doubt that > they will have any laptops or desktops in the future. All you need is a > docking > station for your mobile device, to connect it to a large screen and keyboard. 'average home of less than three people'? - thats like saying the average human being has precisely one boob AND one testicle, and then building a factory to make clothes for that average person - I would hazard a guess that actual homes of three people don't form a large proportion of homes. I do know that in my household of 4 people we have three desktops, four laptops, plus tablets and phones - and that doesn't count the obsolete ones that aren't turned on much - because devices are generally cheap enough that you can use one appropriate to your needs at the time. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
