64Kb was plenty.
That will be great - unless we lose the internet!
AT&T has a secret plan to end the war?
This is not new. The first attempt was by a company called MetriCom. They had the same idea but had too may obstacles in their way. They had to get permission from all the major power companies and phone companies to use their poles. Eventually, they just have up. That is what I recall with a few specifics missing.
What about all the neighborhoods without poles, where power and phone services are all underground ?
The EU has promised free wifi to all member states by 2020
http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-eu-has-promised-free-wifi-to-all-member-states-by-2020-2016-9??r=US&IR=T
Oct 1 the internet will be turned off until the new owner figures it out
Ongoing search for middle and last-mile solutions
Lord help me, but I can’t STAND the way the term “Wi-fi” has been conflated with “Internet”...
millimeter wave signal along (but not directly through) power lines = 1000 bits/sec.
wireless will NEVER have the aggregate bandwidth as optical fiber. There’s only so much electromagnetic spectrum in the usable range for data transmission, whereas optical fiber bandwidth is essentially unlimited given that one can install as many fibers as desired.
I wouln’t Pi$$ on AT&T if they were on fire. Along with Wells Fargo, they are about the most disreputable company on the face of the earth! Maybe Obama can go there and be CEO. He’d fit right in!
REALLY?
Just so happens my ATT Service is not functioning today.
I can text but it searches for about 15-30 minutes to connect.
I also receive Voice Mails but I can’t call out or receive calls reliably (10-15 tries and eventually I can a ring on the other end)
AT&T chose a poor day
ATT is full of sh*t. They innovated nothing.
Their campaign here is to make them seem as this grand Menlo Park of fast data when in fact they are taking Microwave Internet that is already in operation in many regions and cities (for example, http://www.lv.net) blasting data out at greater than fiber speeds.
Microwave Internet is also reaching islands and rural areas that have long been fed up with the legacy Bell BSers, Comcast and the rest of the dinosaurs.
Yet ATT blows their horn about patents and decades of research. Like I expressed similarly above “Horsesh*t!”.
ATT has corporate privilege to expand Microwave Data to make a greater presence.
Now just figure out how they got the money to do all this. From legacy banking relations that small operators cannot access.
All ATT has done is watch how the small entrepreneurs have fared in the Microwave space, then they had their meetings, and they decided they should make a plan to run with it but on someone else’s dime. So all of their “decades long research” is in mapping out what areas they will install, how much it will cost to mail bomb advertising into every home for months on months, TV Ads up the wazoo and marketing reps into every town and city council to buy the necessary approvals to erect barriers to entry for the little guys who have made the whole tech a success.
And patents? I repeat “Horsesh*t!”. We can bet their patents are meaningless with zero utility other than marketing that the old Ma Bell dinosaurs have somehow become tech wunderkinds.
Sounds like there is a whole lot of FUD baked in.
At last! Big Brother is here!
Because ‘the people’ demanded it... like they always do.
Another round of utility trucks on the streets like in the late 80’s and early 90’s when cable was upgraded/expanded?
If I remember correctly aren’t millimeter waves also used similar to radar through walls and sound analysis off window vibrations? I’m not trying to get tinfoil hat, but I could easily see the ability to use this to spy on people by hackers as well as myriad law enforcement.
Yep...here’s a summary though they don’t mention the sound analysis: http://ethw.org/Millimeter_Waves
It is used by TSA in place of X-ray to scan through clothes
Much of my career in networking was launched by TCP/IP and packet radio work that I did in 1985 with Phil Karn (KA9Q). The mobile TCP/IP that you enjoy on your cellphone owes much to Phil's work at Bellcore and Qualcomm. It's time to get back into those activities with current generation ham gear for me. The new generation of radios offer a wide variety of digital modes. I have a sense that the emergency services networking and communications capability is going to be very popular in the near future.
Somewhere in the basement there is a box with my original TAPR TNC (Tuscon Amateur Packet Radio) Terminal Node Controller with the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) protocol to host AX.25, NETROM and TCP/IP over AX.25 at the 1200 bps rate using 170 Hz shift AFSK over 2m FM radio. Oddly, that is still the preferred protocol for commercial off the shelf hardware. Digital signal processing techniques have allowed cheap PC sound cards to be recruited for packet services with software doing all the heavy lifting.
Read up on Fiber last week. They are also testing a wireless service and bought out an existing company.