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Thursday, February 09, 2012 What’s Wrong
(with Communications & Entertainment)?
The big cell phone
companies are charging $10 per Gigabyte for Mobile data. Compared to
Fixed data, this is a 50 to 1 ratio. As we use more of it for
Entertainment such as Mobile Video, they are raising the minimum
quantities we must purchase each month. The cost per Gig is even higher
if you try to use small sub-gigabyte quantities. The 5 GB cap is very
low compared to Fixed data, also a 50 to 1 ratio. Fixed Data
Rates are TOO High The Cable and
Telephone companies are charging 20 cents per Gigabyte of data compared
to a projected cost of ½ cent over Fiber, a 40 to 1 ratio. As we use
more for Over-The-Top (OtT) Video Entertainment, these companies who
compete in that space are capping our usage at 250 GB per month,
preventing extensive use of this fledging technology. Caps on Fiber
delivered data could be as high as 500 GB, PER DAY, a 60 to 1 ratio of
usage. Silos Mobile Data is carried
over the cellular phone network which is a separate business from the
Entertainment & Communications business that delivers to our Homes &
Small to Medium-sized Businesses, though the Mobile companies would like
to sell you the Entertainment you have already purchased a second time
for your Mobile device. There is no synergy here, no symbiotic
reciprocity between Fixed & Mobile Data. Everything
should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Al E. The Fiber needed for
our Mobile communications is not the same as Fiber needed to deliver
Communications & Entertainment to our Homes & SMBs, but it could be. As
our needs and appetites for Mobile Data grow, we will need more big,
ugly cell towers closer to our homes. The closer sites create smaller
cells, limiting the number of users, at the same time allowing increase
capability due to the reduced distance. Of course each of these needs to
be linked with Fiber. As our demand increases, even more towers will be
needed. What if the coverage
areas were shrunk dramatically, to only a few houses on the street? The
sites could be much smaller, the size of motorist aid call boxes,
without the phone on the side, placed inconspicuously every few homes on
the property lines, and then repeated every group forming a canopy over
the footprint. Much more appealing
to view. Of course, these would need to be linked with Fiber, but it
would be the same Fiber needed for our homes & SMBs. These small sites
would raise the cost of Mobile Data to ¾ cents per Gigabyte, still much
below what consumers are currently paying. Plus ALL the services we use
at Home would be available to us as we travel. (Disclaimer: We have
recently issued patents on this system.) Delivering our
Entertainment over our Fiber Data pipe would lower its cost we would
only pay for the programming itself as we would have already provided
the transport of bits over the Fiber network. We get to choose how it is
used, whether for programming, OtT Video or the Internet. It is all one
huge pipe. Coupled with the reduction in Mobile Data costs, our total
expenditures should hold in check. We will need the carriers as we
travel outside the service footprint, at least temporarily. The Future A platform this
capable invites additional services.
These
could include: Mobile Gaming Location Determination
and Tracking Driverless Cars (for
safety, ease, school children, the disabled, taxies) Public Safety
Communications Public Area Video
Monitoring Traffic Monitoring /
Control Security Monitoring Utility Metering /
Control Blocking of
Copyrighted Content What new services
would you like to see or invent?
We
are currently seeking Angel funding to build our test system. Who can
you recommend? |
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