Abbott on internet.  (Way to make a fool of yourself).






Abbott:  copper, and wireless for cities.
NBN:  fiber-to-home (which is the way of the future, and what South Korea and Japan already have).

Seriously, wee already have like the shittest internet among all developed nations, and this guy thinks it's better to build wireless towers everywhere around the city instead of upgrading to fiber.  So when absolutely everyone is on 100mbit+, like 20 years later, wee will still be on 12mbit wireless (which you won't be able to get near that 12mbit peak speed unless at like 3am, is even slower than our current ADSL, and probably costs an arm and leg being wireless and all).












tl;dr:


"The idea that wee could use very fast broadband based on mobile technologies and existing fibre defies the laws of physics. The reality is that very fast broadband - 50 megabits per second and above - cannot be delivered to the entire population using wireless and existing fibre. It would require mobile telephone towers along every suburban street, and optical fibre down every street to connect to the towers.

The result would be thousands of kilometres of new fibre - much the same as will be required for the broadband network - and ugly streetscapes across the nation. It would also consume about 200 megawatts more electricity."

- Rod Tucker, laureate professor at the University of Melbourne.

(This post was last modified: 18/08/2010 07:26 PM by Assassinator.)