did anyone catch the 730 report on the ABC?, it seemed to me that the interviewee had no idea and was just going off what they had been told
an example of this was when challenged about bandwidth avalible when under peak load (5 o'clock for eg) for wimax they stated that the same problem occured with an exchange and that it was worse. this was an outright lie for anyone who has used a wired and unwired account, at peak times you are lucky to get 56k
that about sums it up, both sides are just repeating what thier egineers tell them without thinking or understanding it
my personal prefrence would be for adsl2+ out to everyone but i understand this is not posible, the major argument howard had going was that if you went wired you had to be within range of an exchange. what they dint say is that its the same with wimax and wimax only gets line of sight (fine in our bushland)
there are advantages to both as well as disatvantages:
WiMax Advantage:
* One peice of hardware serves multiple clients
* Low mainntaince costs for telcos
* Sounds good to manegment (this is THE most important point)
Wimax Disadvantage:
* Systems like this tend to be overloaded (time share)
* High hardware costs (this is new tech)
* Unproven
* Line of sight
* Spectrum (AFAIK the wimax spectrum is owned by unwired, so ethier new spectrum needs to be bought or it needs to be relicenced, keep in mind unwired currently has plans to upgrade to wimax so selling the spectrum)
Wired Advantage:
* Cheaper hardware
* Proven to work
* Upgardeable
* Utilises exsisting telco lines
* Open to competion (ie multiple isps with equipment in the same exchange)
Wired Disadvantage:
* It costs money to lay down new wires
* In some cases wires may need te be upgraded
* "Activation" (think telstras long delays for activating lines for other telcos)
* Ongoing matiance costs for Telcos
from a user point of view and buisness competion point of view (ie the smaller guys) the wired is the best solution, wireless will in this case create a good postiion for the controlling company to create a lockin situation in the rural area.
to the goverment wireless looks like the best postion finacially for them, however they only see the shorterm games and as far as i can tell they have had the wool pulled over thier eyes as it would not suppise me if they telco could out manover them on how much they pay (inital costs are buying the spectrum, thier are ongoing costs such as fees and taxeses to the goverment)
i dont belive the govement would put the money into this unless there was an election comming up (oh wait there is ) and they see the chance to make the money back in the long term (which as i said i belive the telco will out manouver them on this one)
note i didnt talk about the cities here as they will win no matter what happens and i am glad telstra dosent get a cent. however i wish some funds would be dropped into upgrading the wirlpool network and laying down more lines to other countries for ddiffrentisps to level the playing field somwhat
thats my analisys, lets see how it goes
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