LTE will gut the NBN

[Leftwinger]

IQ, you should try to not let your mind wander - it's far too tiny and fragile to be out on it's own

[IQSRLOW]

When you manage to find yours, feel free to come back and engage

[Jovial Monk]

Oh man, I wonder what the mobile LTE performance will be once they sign up say 10,000 clients. S l o o o o o w. Now imagine half a million subscribers—glacial would be too kind a description I think.

[Dusty Trail]

Would have to put up 80,000 towers, all backwired with fibre so more expensive and a heap slower than the FTTH NBN.

Do you have a mobile phone? How do you think you can get access to that? Can you see a "tower" from your house?

You live in a suburb where everyone votes ALP. Why would they upgrade anything in your street? If you think the NBN will give you super fast internet you are lacking in foresight. You live in the wrong area.

[Leftwinger]

What the fuck was that pointless dribble all about?

[Jovial Monk]

Anger that the NBN will go ahead I assume.

[Leftwinger]

Must be it JM - it's not anything approaching an intelligent argument.

Speaking of things that are intelligent..

A NEW proposal to build a broadband network in Japan shows that wireless technology is inferior to fibre, says the Federal Government.

Japanese telecommunications company Softbank last week floated a plan to build a new fibre-optic broadband network in Japan, similar to the one being rolled out across Australia.

But I thought that wireless was superior............oh wait

Softbank chief Masayoshi Son said the plan was for a fibre network because technical hurdles with wireless made cabling cheaper and more viable.

Cheaper and more viable than wireless.

"The Softbank proposal advocates that fibre is the preferred technology for ultra high-speed broadband, even in Japan where mobile internet services are popular," a department spokesperson told news.com.au.

"Fibre is a superior transmission medium. The cable is cheap, has negligible latency issues, and has incredible bandwidth capability. Unlike wireless, the information-carrying capacity of the fibre itself is almost unlimited."

http://sutherla.blogspot.com/2010/11/ja ... -roll.html

[IQSRLOW]

Oh look, a private company is doing what private companies

Get the govt (especially a Liebor govt) to keep their grubby little noses out of that which they have no understanding or ability

[Jovial Monk]

Almost unlimited, hmmm sounds good!

[Jovial Monk]

Mr Son was also quoted/misquoted/quoted out of context by the OO saying the NBN was stupid.

Ummm retraction OO?