Change we can believe in – breaking telecoms monopolies
Written by Paul Newnes
A subject close to my heart, blogged elegantly by Tom Evslin at Fractals of Change.
Essentially it looks as if the FCC will do the right thing by the ‘whitespace’ UHF spectrum freed up by the movement to digital TV. Tom explains the technologies and approaches the large US telcos are banking on, LTE (enhanced 3G) and WiMAX, may be superseded before they become widely available.
So what does that mean to the rest of us? That we will have ubiquitous wireless internet data (and hence voice) coverage at fixed line speeds that does not necessitate the astronomical capital investment that is required for cellular networks. Thus more and better competition for our hard earned dollars.
