[War] Timeline thinking

[pentaj2 at Scranton.edu]

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Garcia <ssiruuk25 at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:09 pm
Subject: Re: [War] Timeline thinking

<snip ethanol chatter.>

> > 
> > > The developing world remains developing technologically.5-10 
> years 
> > > behind the developed world for the most part, though in more 
> > > prosperous parts of the developing world, wireless broadband 
> will 
> > > find a place (it's much cheaper than laying down wires).  Cell 
> > > phones continue to be big in the developing world.
> > 
> > This works, though I am dubious re wireless broadband.
> 
> The idea re wireless broadband and the developing world is that if 
> I had to guess it was going to
> make it somewhere, it would be there.  There isn't the big wired 
> telecom system that we have in
> the West, built over the past hundred years and reaching right up 
> into everyone's homes.  So it
> would be cheaper to just set up a wireless point to cover a few sq 
> kilometers, and have fun.  Of
> course, there are spectrum issues there too, just not as big as in 
> the West.  The one other thing
> which just occured to me which could compete in a big way is that 
> there's been a good amount of
> work on broadband over power lines.  If this gets worked out 
> pretty well, that could be the method
> of choice for the developing world.  But these are all things 
> which will still be new even five
> years from now in the best of conditions.

Whaddabout terrain RF interference? Plenty of these poor places are in 
mountains.

>From experience, WiFi in mountains is paaaainful.

John