Hey just read this article and I wanted to pop my $0.02 in on it. Its at the NYT and its called Technology Group Plans Wireless Network. Its about the consortum who are getting together to build a wide broadband wireless network. Now I don't know about you, but unless you live under a rock, you hadto be expecting this ( oh I know with my previous article I said that nobody can predict tech trends but this one is a real no-brainer.) With the penetration of wireless devices like cell phones and PDA's this was inevitable. However, it claims that they are trying to match speeds of current broadband providers. Which I suppose is a good thing, and by the time they actually do implement this broadband wirless network, the wired infrastructure in the country will be mostly fiber (hopefully).
However i'm wondering what exactly the effect this will have on the structure of the current internet. I mean, I have a mobile blog . But trust me, posting via mobile is a whole lot different than READING blogs mobile. Sure instead of actually hitting the blogger page, you can hit my feedburner feed, and it looks ok on a mobile, but REALLY, if mobile is going to be king, it needs to have alot of changes. There are no ifs, ands, or buts. From the article though it kind of sounds like they are actually hoping to replace all internet connections with this wide broadband network ( on the consumer level at least ). I'm not sure this is going to work. I mean I have wi-fi on my laptop and I love it, but if there is a wired connection, its much faster and far more stable. I mean there is nothing wrong with my Wi-Fi access point, but wired still delivers data beter than any wireless. I know that the spectrum is different but wireless is wireless. FM radio's are wireless and they still don't get pure connections on the fringe ranges. It will turn into "who is lucky enough to live under a wireless tower?" versus "the only internet I can get is wireless broadband, but out in the styx it maybe works every other day."
I suppose my question is: are people ready for a change like this? Maybe they are maybe they are not. I for one will still be holding on to my wired service provider (hopefully fiber by then). I may consider this as a secondary option for my mobile stuff, but I'm not sure I would be comfortable paying what I pay now for service that gets disrupted during sunspots.
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