Comments on: Mobile Broadband – Not Quite There Yet http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2010/07/01/mobile-broadband-not-quite-there-yet/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Have I Reached My Limit with ATT? - Geek News Central http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2010/07/01/mobile-broadband-not-quite-there-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-18780 Have I Reached My Limit with ATT? - Geek News Central Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:47:35 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/?p=12585#comment-18780 [...] disrupted and we had nothing for three or four hours.  And I’ve written before about the trouble I had with ATT’s wireless broadband. And don’t even get me started on the nightmare service calls I’ve had lately regarding [...] [...] disrupted and we had nothing for three or four hours.  And I’ve written before about the trouble I had with ATT’s wireless broadband. And don’t even get me started on the nightmare service calls I’ve had lately regarding [...]

]]> By: John http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2010/07/01/mobile-broadband-not-quite-there-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-16113 John Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:09:32 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/?p=12585#comment-16113 You know that asking for something worthwhile and reasonable out of a telecom company is like asking the sky to turn bright pink and the sun to shine blue all the time. The telecommunications industry is disastrously behind the rest of technology because they're behemoths, moving from a time when industry innovation meant "let's take these same services, wrap them up in a shiny new bow, and *blammo* new product offering". The problem is, they still have us over a barrel. 4G providers like ClearWire show promise, but are not widely deployed at this point. There are Wireless broadband providers out otherwise, but without a line-of-sight to their antennas, that's no good. It'll get better. Eventually. But not for a while yet. Broadband-quality access just isn't a human right at this point, and until someone can get that movement going well enough, we're going to be stuck with shoddy, price-gouging access. You know that asking for something worthwhile and reasonable out of a telecom company is like asking the sky to turn bright pink and the sun to shine blue all the time. The telecommunications industry is disastrously behind the rest of technology because they’re behemoths, moving from a time when industry innovation meant “let’s take these same services, wrap them up in a shiny new bow, and *blammo* new product offering”.

The problem is, they still have us over a barrel. 4G providers like ClearWire show promise, but are not widely deployed at this point. There are Wireless broadband providers out otherwise, but without a line-of-sight to their antennas, that’s no good.

It’ll get better. Eventually. But not for a while yet. Broadband-quality access just isn’t a human right at this point, and until someone can get that movement going well enough, we’re going to be stuck with shoddy, price-gouging access.

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