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Re: Down with SBC! quote:
IF we're going to have any monopoly, let it exist only with the loop and let the other services compete on their own merits.
And who draws the short straw for this money losing business? To make serious money (and keep money to invest and keep the network running) prices will HAVE to increase anyways.
My best suggestion still is that instead of relying of fiber and copper, give EVERYONE an 18 inch dish that sends and receives ALL TV, Telephone, Internet, ETC. There are already TONS of companies that make these. Then, all the providers that want in on selling content can fly a satellite in the sky. If you want to switch, you point your dish 4 degrees to the left and 18 degrees up. If people can't afford the bundled content package, they can subscribe to a government subsidized satellite.
This would be cheaper than relying on people not digging around in their backyards, having bad reception when it rains too hard, etc. No one would OWN the "local loop infrastructure" because it wouldn't be there.
Any takers?
Boogie74 | |
Anon | slight problem... sattelite communications blow for home net connections in terms of latency. the only way to keep it down is to put the sats at a very low orbit but then it reduces their footprint which means cost goes up per area of coverage... i.e. not gonna happen... | |
| said by fromonkey:
slight problem... sattelite communications blow for home net connections in terms of latency. the only way to keep it down is to put the sats at a very low orbit but then it reduces their footprint which means cost goes up per area of coverage... i.e. not gonna happen...
Attitudes such as this caused people to doubt that a telephone would be invented, a radio invented, the lightbulb, refrigeration, high speed automobiles, airplanes, the space shuttle, etc... too expensive, not possible, no one will try it, etc. Besides which- you apparently aren't aware of how MUCH of our telephone and internet communications are already transmitted- There are LOTS of connections that rely on satellite technology as we speak.
Cost goes up per area of coverage?? And how much would it cost "per area", how big would the "area be", etc?? You have no idea how much it costs to lay copper and fiber now... how much a tech visit to diagnose your network DSL problem runs for the companies, how much the technology costs, etc.
Right now, cable connections blow in terms of latency too. Satellite blows for latency for 1 HUGE reason- people have to dial-up to upload. Slowing down the upload channel to a max of 33.6 Kbps (56K is only download max) causes big time problems when you are playing an online game for instance- you download what the other guy is doing to you REALLY fast, but you can't send a thing of what your doing to him.
I don't doubt that 2-way satellite will replace the outside copper completely- hell- put in all fiber optic cabling inside the home and hook it up to a satellite dish. It would be much more cost effective for installation, overhead, upkeep, etc- even if you had to pay $200 to $400 per month for all your telephone, internet and television combined (add $100 for phone now, $50-$60 for internet, and
$80 for tv as we are now and you total over $240 already) and many would buy it. Take away the cost of unbundling a network for competition, paying for tech visits to fix a copper short or pair crossing every time it rains or snows too hard, paying for emergency instances where trees knock down cables- take away ALL tech visits to install any of the services- as there would be no need to change a pair at a crossbox, or test the connection for DSL, or change a filter and program a converter for cable- I would think this would knock down MUCH of the current cost of doing business.
These are just ideas, IMHO of course. Please don't knock down those who dare to dream- attitudes such as expressed in your post above would have prevented you from talking on the phone- or defrosting the bagel your eating right this moment.
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Corona, CA | said by boogie74:
Attitudes such as this caused people to doubt that a telephone would be invented, a radio invented, the lightbulb, refrigeration, high speed automobiles, airplanes, the space shuttle, etc...
Boogie74
Satellite "blows" because of a physical reality called "Speed of Light"; it takes too long to transmit packets up and back some 25,000 miles each way using geo-synchronous satellites, and adds up to serious latency that plagues its practical use for many internet applications. Both two-way and one-way satellite systems suffer from this limitation imposed by physics. Companies have focused on some clever software to mask the effects as much as possible, but in the end, satellite suffers significant technical and economic barriers here that are not likely to be solved any time soon.
If or when someone breaks the light-speed barrier, the breakthrough will be likely be far more significant to humankind and involved with a much loftier first application than just faster or cheaper internet access. Let's get real. In the mean time, "subspace" and "warp speed" and real-time communication over vast distances remains the fantasy of Star Trek fans.
Near Earth or low orbit satellites, as well as Angel planes, balloons, etc have been suggested to combat this problem, but for right now the current economic climate along with the failure of significant pioneers to date suggest that these designs and plans will sit on the shelf for a few years.
I'm all for pioneering spirit; throughout history, the more severe the challenge the more inventive the solution is that solve it. Unfortunately, you can also tell who the pioneers are by the arrows in their back. Iridium failed, wireless, satellite, and high-flying airplane initiatives are failing or running out of venture capital.
In the end, I suspect that existing ILEC and Cable companies will see evolutionary and economic changes in technology that make fiber to the home or business become practical before esoteric orbiting solutions become economically viable and developed to the point where they are serious alternatives. | |
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