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WiMax - It is Japan - It is USA - It is not EU

A colleague returned from Japan with news that mobile TV, interactive TV, wireless broadband Web 2.0, digital democracy, YouTube, what every you want to call it, is already being rolled out in Japan - like it is in the USA and is operational in Seattle. The WiMax standard means there need not be a huge infrastructure investment. The > 1 Ghz band requires many high towers for greater than pedestrian mobility but the < 1 Ghz band does not. In fact antenna can be just a few feet high. The colleague participated in his first video conference while there.

The future involving wireless is different in different countries with the European ones being least likely to be able to see benefits. This is owing to privatization of the airwaves and a culture more respectful of monarchy and monopoly - kings and robber barrons - than of the kind of democracy we enjoy in the USA. The EU countries will need cable. Politically they will be unable to regain the air now owned by transnational big business.

Interestingly my colleague observed an advocate of monarchy in Japan. So I think this notion of groups nostalgic of the pre-WWII days with former Warsaw pact nations being prime recruiting grounds is a valid one. Pre-WWII days were so "need-to-know" and secret society (Skull and Bones - don't taz me bro) that I strongly believe there are terrorist acts against Blogers and Web 2.0 supporters and WiMix owing to it.

Anyway, if you think more interactive TV than mobile and you think airwaves that penetrate building structures, the < 1Ghz spectrum becomes something that has to be public. Two years from now - not five, we in the USA will be carrying on video conferences from trains, boats planes as well as courts, offices, and businesses. The last mile connectivity for telephony and internet will be provided by the same airwaves. So no special equipment will be needed in office buildings or government offices - no expensive last mile cable or fiber. We need to move faster on this. To many decision makers think they need equipment for phones and conferencing and email/ communications when there likely is no business reason for that investment given WiMax and an assumption that the US government is no longer corruptible by transnational big business, who would sell us things not necessary in the USA given the current public broadband wireless air waives.

Frank L. Mighetto
US citizen

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 09/20/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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