Cody, yes I read the Internet via Satellite study and was also put off by the typos. More substantively, I tend not to take studies that simplify or declare "winners" so definitively. xDSL cannot be given the victory trophy at this stage of the game--no technology can.
Bill Gates and Andy Grove would absolutely, positively, LOVE to know which gizmo was going to finally "do it" so that MR/MRS Happy Homeowner finally have decent bandwidth, so that Bill and Andy could then starting pumping out even more hardware and software cuz with adequate b/w, the net will be able to do some really amazing stuff, and multi-billionaires will become trillionaires or whatever.
The fact is that Bill and Andy have spread their bets over the whole table (satellite, cable modem, xDSL, fiber optic, DWDM--you name it). So if Bill and Andy don't know, how do the guys who wrote the study know?
My personal preference would be for the satellite guys to win, primarily so I could tell my local cable TV provider to go to hell, have one dish on the roof, and get video/internet signals with zero dependency on the wired world. With the current state of the state, this doesn't happen cause the uplink still requires you to go through an ISP blah, blah, blah and only the downlink comes from the bird. Clumsy to say the least. In two or three years, this we will supposedly have real two-way systems satellite direct and IF that's true, seems to me the birds could give any of the competing mouse traps a run for their money. Sure will be a fun one to watch. Mike Doyle |
