----- On Jan 5, 2020, at 3:21 AM, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: Hi,
> The question isn't about whether the kids will be using wire or > wireless... we know they will be using wireless. The question is what > that wireless will be. Something has to drive the wireless, so the wire > (mostly high-bandwidth fibre) is not going anywhere. It is the > distribution, particularly in consumer applications, that will be wireless. That we totally agree on. > I just think that it will be more wi-fi than GSM data, simply because of > the cost of scaling out GSM data vs. the cost of running fibre to a site > and distributing connectivity via wi-fi. My instinct tells me it will be some form of low earth orbit satellites. In the past I worked for a GEO satellite ISP and while that technology has its drawbacks, those are mostly resolved with transponders in LEO. That said, in my dreams it will be something like this: https://phys.org/news/2019-12-entanglement-long-distance-free-space-quantum.html Imagine a world where you have one half of a quantum entangled particle in your device, with the other half being on the ISP premises. Instant wireless communication. I do apologize for the highly off-topic sci-fi here :) Thanks, Sabri
