Packeteers
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join:2005-06-18
Forest Hills, NY
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why the French are right
right now, in 2008;
-you can get 1080p HDTV 5-channel audio reception off over the air UHF antenna.
-you can get unlimited 1500/768 Broadband using a Cellular Data Card or data enabled phone with bluetooth.
-all the while regular phone calls and text pricing is dropping.
you really think this over the air technologies will not improve and expand by 2012 when FOIS is supposed to be built? it will, in ways you obviously can't imagine especially once the low-VHF bands go up for sale. Verizon will use some of it's $24 Billion dollars to RETARD the very innovation it will ultimately have to compete with. |
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Taylortbb
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join:2007-02-18
Waterloo, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Exactly, 1500/768 (that's in kb/s), that's pretty slow compared to fibre. With 40Gb/s (40000000kb/s) fibre connections now a reality it's really not comparable. That also doesn't change the fact you can always light additional frequencies on a fibre optic cable. Fibre has virtually unlimited bandwidth.
I don't think wireless will ever compete, but maybe one day it will. I'm however pretty sure that day will be far enough in the future that fios will have been worth it.
I consider it basically a certainty that anything hyped as a future technology will not be, and the real future technology will be something we never expected. This is because humans cannot predict what will be invented or discovered, simply because we don't know what's out there. If wireless was going to seriously compete it would be competing by now, it's been around long enough.
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
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said by Packeteers  :-you can get unlimited 1500/768 Broadband using a Cellular Data Card or data enabled phone with bluetooth. Ummm hate to break you but in Europe they are already at 7Mb HSUPA.... of course, they didn't have to deal with corrupt US legislative system and incompatible, proprietary networks with mandatory multi-year contract locks. 
OTOH Cingular is rolling out HSUPA IIRC so not everything lost here - no wonder that's an EU-like standard...
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