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On 3 March 2016 at 13:54, Janet Hawtin <[email protected]> wrote: > Wireless depends on the bands being available for public use? If we want > to be planning for larger wireless public bandwidth should we be tracking > squatted commercial wireless bands and reclaiming it for public use? > > On 3 March 2016 at 13:27, David Boxall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/03/2016 9:11 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: >> >>> On 01/03/16 15:56, David Boxall wrote: >>> >>> Can you substantiate your implication that the only demand that's >>>> increasing is mobile? ... >>>> >>> >>> The intended implication was that mobile demand would make fixed data >>> demand largely irrelevant. >>> >>> ACAM reported that in December 2014, 21% of adult Australians were >>> mobile-only Internet users, up 2% from the previous year. Younger >>> Australians are more mobile and I suggest as they get older they will >>> stay mobile and fixed Internet use will decline in importance: >>> >>> http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/engage-blogs/engage-blogs/Research-snapshots/Australians-get-mobile >>> ... >>> >> <sigh> >> >> There are others on this list better qualified than I to unpick that >> cherry. What I do get out of this is that both mobile and fixed line demand >> are rising exponentially. >> >> So, a little thought experiment: >> - Two networks; one all fibre, the other solely wireless. >> - To level the playing field, we'll make the distances 100 kilometres for >> wireless and 1000 for fibre. >> - Begin adding 8k video streams (this is not meant to be far into the >> future, so we won't go beyond 8k). >> >> Which will reach its limits first? >> >> David Boxall | My figures are just as good >> | as any other figures. >> http://david.boxall.id.au | I make them up myself, and they >> | always give me innocent pleasure. >> | --HL Mencken >> _______________________________________________ >> Link mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link >> > > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
