mrvid
join:2007-06-19
Levittown, NY
3 edits | wireless trying to compete or beat FTTP/cable will hurt --
My feelings about this...
Wireless can be a good thing but one of the problems with these attempts to find solutions to even match reasonable transmission speeds as an alternative to cable or FTTP offerings of triple play will hurt everyone getting the service.
Face it, does everyone truly pay for what their line costs, if fiber passes 10 homes in one area and 30 in another for the same distance, is the price not the same.
What wireless will do is give us an almost as good offering with tradeoffs and you can say goodbye to any rural offerings. The theory beyond the telephone company of the past was always that highly profitable areas always subsidized cheaper areas, a fair price for everyone both urban & rural.
This was the basis behind the universal service fund proposed for years, that it would collect from many sources but its been at least 10 years since the telcommunications act of 1996 and where are we. This promised information superhighway is still not here. Could be wrong but I don't think that companies want the government involved pressing rules and conditions to get funds.
Heres the thing, what I feel.. if wireless tries to push into high speed wireless offerings like cable and FTTP's tripleplay, it will be a lousy thing for everyone. It wont pay to invest in new technology, any issues this will produce, we'll be stuck with and there will be dark areas which now, it doesn't pay to ever wire. In urban areas it will be problematic for interference, semi urban areas will probably see spotty unusual problems and rural touch and go reception. If there are any issues, tough, because wired cannot directly compete with wireless in terms of price, if wireless is way cheaper, where it does work it may not look or perform that great and it wont pay to innovate since it is very hard for one who has to wire entire neighborhoods to compete with someone who doesn't have to wire.
FTTP should be tomarrows network, everyone should work to build it. The alternative networks such as FTTC/copper or coax networks are good for only some time. Wireless should suppliment with mobile solutions.
Fiber to the home could be run in an underground solution from as urban as city streets to as rural as the grand canyon. Underground will keep it out of the elements, tubes should be placed in the ground and the fiber run through it.
Everyone in the country deserves to have the best technology, everyone in the country could have FTTP/H within a 15 year window, until then either cable or a DSL/DirecTv solution could work till then.
Wireless is much more nimble and cheaper than wired, if potential competitors dont see a profit can be made by wiring, they probably won't even bother or just never improve what they have, to take in revenue with less potential customers means they have to raise their prices while wireless can go down but now if wireless doesn't work that well, you just thrown reward for investment in wired technology and advancement out the window.
Ok, let me put this short and sweet, short of some providers waiting for fiber to drop affordably enough to put together an FTTP solution, the entire nation could be wired in as little as 15 years. No question, FTTP can deliver the very best no matter what tomarrow brings with the best picture and sound available and everyone should be entitled to it but if new high speed wireless comes in like a super fast networked hot dog stand, these providers will probably not want to invest in this network.
What if this happens, what if wireless wrecked plans for wired networks then down the road, people started getting cancer who were near transmitters. We'd be stuck, FTTP or cable is the solution for now. Even FTTC/copper isn't a bad short term solution but I feel this 4G & higher wireless technology will ruin our chance to enjoy the greatest quality technology one day across the entire country. |
