"tony sayer" wrote in message
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The companies manufacturing broadband equipment pointed out that anything
installed now would be obsolete next week so don't bother. Most work on
VDSL in the UK is winding down and whether it's WiMax, satellite, laser
or
whatever, a wireless solution will dominate broadband provision in due
course.


Really?, What makes you think that then....

I'm a consultant for many of those companies.

If WiMax gets the top end of the analogue TV bands as it will in the US and
some other places then it's a fairly done deal, otherwise laser solutions
could still succeed. And there is a round trip problem with satellite, it
is the best way to deliver huge amounts of data to lots of people. In
theory every non-video/music page on the Internet could be regularly
delivered to one's own private 'google' if you had a large enough hard
drive.