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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:04:07 GMT
- From: tcubed@ddsw1.mcs.com (James Hanlon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: The Future of Wired vs Wireless Services
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- jadams@vixen.cc.bellcore.com (adams,john) writes:
-
- > I suspect that outside sociological, economic, and political pressures
- > will do more to answer the posed question than mere technology alone.
-
- After much experience, both painful and rewarding, I have to agree.
-
- > other "softer" sciences. At least from my perspective, the softer
- > sciences are indeed *MUCH* harder to master than those we use daily.
-
- And are applicable far more often than we'd care to admit. Just what
- is the ratio? I have my own judgments -- any other opinions?
-
- > Will the current industry infrastructure (Don't you just love the way
- > we can beat this politicisms to death :-) ) remain viable by 2010?
-
- US, yes; the LECs and the Inter-LATA carriers make money with zero
- incremental thought on their parts. Such an easy life will be
- perpetuated by all sorts of rationalizations -- after all, there's
- still a Western Union! The international picture will reflect a more
- entrepreneurial orientation, as formerly nationalized administrations
- get, first, privatized, then, overlaid with only nominally national
- wide-band high-connectivity networks. I base my reasoning on the fact
- that non-US administrations have fewer intrinsic constraints upon them
- -- they largely limit themselves. It only takes one executive of
- vision to get the ball rolling, once freed from bureaucratic concerns,
- and enjoying the support of the Prime Minister/President/King.
-
- Network architecture is no longer mysterious these days, and
- comm/compute hardware is notoriously commoditized. There are numerous
- non-US telco administrations with the know-how to pull off e.g. a
- wide-band wireless point-to-point variable bandwidth overlay network
- for large geographic areas, that considers the PSTN a relatively small
- component.
-
- I am disposed to wireless because, in the foregoing scenario, it
- permits the subversion of any existing wired network without directly
- confronting any entrenched (sorry) bureaucracy. Wireless for the first
- hop is a viable strategy as long as reasonably cheap broadband rf
- modems are available, and spread-spectrum technology can make the
- above-10 GHz area sharable. I am assuming that this will happen.
-
- > venture. Profit is not a dirty word! I am convinced that rate of
- > return regulation will die a natural death before the year 2000.
- > While price cap regulation seems to be in vogue with our lawyer
- > friends(?), I'm almost positive that zero regulation (price/cost only)
- > will be in effect by 2010.
-
- I predict that individuals in 2010 will have the option to contract
- with global bandwidth/connectivity providers for any sort of frame
- transfer, with various guarantees of delivery, ordering, delay, and
- BER. And AT&T, and FCC, will have very little to say about it.
-
-
- Jim Hanlon tcubed@ddsw1.mcs.com
-
-