harvey wrote:deepy wrote:Could you explain why consumers have not taken up the readily available high speed broadband services now and have, instead, switched to wireless?
I would suggest that it is far too expensive, too intrusive with getting installed, too restrictive as you are only connected from one source, whereas wireless is far cheaper, extremely mobile and provides a very good service.
The fall in fixed line internet connections is attributable to all this.
The answer is not so much in what a fixed line offers, it is in what it doesn't offer. The argument from the indoctrinated is to compare one with the other in technical terms. But wireless trumps fixed line (whatever form that takes) by its one key advantage - mobility. And the arguments by the indoctrinated are rendered irrelevant by global consumer trends.
All they need do is look to what the consumer has done in the past, compare it with what the consumer does today, and then project that into the future.
Where there have been massive roll out of fibre optic take up is still low. In Korea, for example, they are predicting a fall in fixed line (and they have an extensive fibre optic network) and growth in wireless.
All the technical talk is just blather if the consumer doesn't care about it, they just want to talk to their friends while on the move. Social networking is still in its infancy. It is becoming a phenomenon.
