I agree, true rural, that does not have a fiber option will probably be a
great application for it.
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From: Bill Prince
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 11:01 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] The Future
If the SpaceX Starlink system works at 50% of what it's hyped, it will
become the future of rural internet. Urban is still going to be
dominated (eventually) by fiber for the foreseeable future. Higher speed
wireless will be very, very local.
bp
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On 1/19/2020 6:29 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
I don’t know why, but this evening got me thinking about broadband
delivery over the past 30 years and the future of broadband.
First we had nothing, then along came dial-up and that was amazing and
many companies sprung up offering the service. Giants like AOL and
Prodigy.
Then DSL and Cable came along as well as wireless and dial-up has all but
died.
Now DSL is basically dead, cable and wireless have gone through several
iterations and we are seeing a push to fiber.
What’s the possibility in the next 10 years cable and wireless will be
dead technologies with fiber at the fore front? Possibly.
But then..... is fiber really future proof? We are talking about
investing hundreds of millions into fiber infrastructure, because it’s
“the future”. But is it?
So far every technology delivery mechanism to date has become obsolete in
as little as 6-10 years.
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