Disruptive Broadband
Brough Turner, Founder, netBlazr Inc.
Broadband Internet access is the foundation for most new communications services,
yet whether that access comes via 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi or a Cable or DSL modem, it's the
fixed access network that's the bottleneck in most countries. Fiber would be ideal,
but local rights-of-way and incumbent players mean politics dominates economics
and there is little room for individual action. As one example, roughly 3% of US
commercial buildings have "competitive" fiber connections. In these few buildings
Internet access is 1/20th to 1/40th the cost it is in duopoly buildings just 100 yards
away. Now that's a dysfunctional market!
Wireless: It will never beat fiber's capacity, but there is more room for individual
action. Already, many 3G and 4G cell sites use point-to-point wireless links for
backhaul and roughly 2000 ISPs now use fixed wireless to provide broadband
access in all manner of markets. Better yet, we've passed a technology tipping point
that changes several previously "established" rules, so it's time to reevaluate what
we can do with this rapidly evolving technology.
It's also worth reevaluating market structure (existing ISPs and community
networks), funding models, reliability approaches - you name it!
In this talk, I'll describe a clean sheet approach to community wireless networking
that's currently being tested in Boston.
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