[MLB-WIRELESS] WiMAX to go Australia wide?

[emdeex]

I think Fibre or DSL to the home, or node, would be absolutely awesome, but
for many people I just don't really see it happening, I really hope it does,
but...

If I think of my friends who live in regional Victoria:

A lives in a semi-rural street 6kms from the town centre (the town has 2000
people) and they are on a pair-gain and can't get DSL.  The best they can
get is 28k modem speed.  Telstra have replied to them that there is no plan
to ever put DSL on there due to the low density vs. excessive cost.  There
are about 12 homes along that street.

B lives in a street with 4 homes on acre blocks, about 4kms from town (about
6000 people), its an old part of town, and again Telstra says the density vs
cost is far too great to put DSL in.  They can get modem speeds no greater
than 18kps, and they have tried all the molds testing etc.  The lines are
old.  Telstra says they can get Satellite, but its expensive and too laggy
for VOIP.

In these couple of examples, I can only imagine a WiMAX modem running at
6Mb/s (or even 1Mb/s!) would be an unbelievable improvement.  And if it runs
at 12Mb/s and is available within 2 years....

On 6/19/07, Tony Langdon, VK3JED <vk3jed at optushome.com.au> wrote:
>
> At 01:37 AM 6/19/2007, Dean Collins wrote:
> >As it's still early in the announcement I think it's a moot point to
> >complain what they are/are not rolling out.
> >
> >Anything that is able to increase to connectivity for remote/rural
> >people above dial up is a good thing.
> >
> >My point was people seem to be making a lot of assumptions already about
> >this announcement without a lot of factual data (both gov/corp and
> >public)
>
> This is true, but I'll join the ranks of the skeptics unless someone
> can prove otherwise.  Radio has limited bandwidth, and WiMax, like
> GSM, UMTS, HSDPA and other cellular technologies requires a lot of
> serious backhaul bandwidth, especially when you want to service
> thousands of users.
>
> I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I am rather skeptical.
>
> 73 de VK3JED
> http://vkradio.com
>
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