Comment Re:Goal Posts (Score 1) 106
Oh please no no NO, do not give them the idea to install more mobile towers. Do it right, run the fibre to the premises. Mobile network towers are not a substitute for fibre network that'll be useful for 50yrs+, where's we'd be constantly having to change the towers every ~15 years if they want to keep up with the latest and as the frequency increases we have to typically install more towers per given area.
The throughput from towers also falls off at a more rapid rate due to contention compared to fibre.
No matter how good mobile/radio towers get, the limitations of bandwidth of the carrier frequency from the Shannon limit mean that fibre/light will always be multiple magnitudes superior.
NBN is a clusterf**k, thank you Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, and even Stephen Conroy for taking a crowbar across the knees of Australia's networking future for the sake of appeasing Foxtel and Telstra (who pocketed a lot of our money for their crumbling copper ).