NBN critics misunderstand wireless:
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But optical fibre will outpace wireless for the foreseeable future.
The chief executive officer of Australia?s oldest modem maker has added his voice to those backing fibre for the National Broadband Network, saying there was room for it and wireless to coexist.
But the public misunderstood wireless services, said NetComm chief David Stewart.
?Fixed wireless broadband, a lot of people don?t understand what that means as far as the NBN goes,? Stewart told a Gold Coast conference today.
?The concept that the NBN has here is that it?s going to be a fixed wireless technology that will deliver a guaranteed bandwidth to a fixed location and a base station will serve a handful of people [seven percent of Australians].
?The advantage is those people will have a permanent connection at a constant speed.
?It?s quite unlike mobile wireless broadband we all know today with 3G.?
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