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Cringely on LTE vs Fixed Line

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  • 07-12-2011 6:22pm
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    clohamon
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    The criticism goes mainstream.

    http://www.cringely.com/2011/12/still-wired-after-all-these-years/

    Eighteen months from now many American homes will be where Japanese and Korean homes have been for sometime, sucking 100 megabits or more from the Internet. LTE can’t do that now or then and it can’t do half of that for a tenth or even a hundredth of the customer base of wired Internet.
    Verizon needs the bandwidth because voice landlines are going away and it has to compete with AT&T, not Comcast. The new voice is all wireless. But at the same time, even 4G wireless will come to share analog voice’s sense of not being enough.
    FiOS was deliberately designed from the very beginning with the good glass — fiber that can go to a gigabit and beyond. DOCSIS 3’s channel bonding and network segmentation will eventually allow full access to 70+ video channels for data service where currently most cable modems use one channel and some use two or three. No matter what way the wire gets to your house that wire will soon carry 100 megabits and then a gigabit that LTE never will.


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    watty
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    clohamon wrote: »
    The criticism goes mainstream.

    http://www.cringely.com/2011/12/still-wired-after-all-these-years/

    The reality is that 5MHz LTE is 1Mbps to 4Mbps typical and 20MHz LTE is 4Mbps to 16Mbps typical. Assuming only mobile short term users and light load (less than 5 simultaneous connections) . It's not designed for Video Streaming (TV & Film watching) or Video Skype for fixed users.

    You can't break the laws of Physics by marketing and wishful thinking. The LTE 21Mbps or 100Mbps (5Mhz or 20Mhz channels) is as meaningless as 3G/HSPA+ 21Mbps (always 5MHz channel).


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