See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all
Socrates (
Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy)
I remember making this prediction as far back as 2009 to Audia Granston, my Seventh Day Adventist evil arch-nemesis who then commented, “Bwoy, we a keep up wid de Kardashians, sah” with eyes a gleam and pining for her work to be over so that we could make out.
This is as Americanized in her thinking from her time spent in the US of A as a child before being sent home for obeying the Missy Elliot song “
Get your freak on”, as she was more into kissing or “making out” than any other activity.
Albeit, speaking in dirty French, Audia Granston had a penchant for the avant-garde French and their naughty habit of embrasse-moi sur tout mon corps.
So with separate Coaches laid out as on an airplane, I guess there should also be Rolling Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) as hinted in
my blog article entitled “
Telecom Providers and 100MBps – Diamonds are Forever” as 3G and WiMaX 4G Mobile (IEEE 802.16d,e) Service is spotty at best, prompting Telecom Provider
Digicel, soon-to-be-owners of Telecom Provider
CLARO, to possibly utilize the more flexible and robust LTE (Long Term Evolution) Network as opposed to WiMaX 4G Mobile (IEEE 802.16d,e).
Students alone are not the only impetus for the implementation of Rolling Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n). Casual browsers on any moving vehicle where the person is a passenger is a huge and upcoming market segment that can more than adequately justify a bandwidth of 100MBps being provided by Telecom Providers in their Wireless Broadband offerings.
Some smartphone owners may argue that if they have 3G or 4G Internet on their smartphone, a simple jailbreak can turn it into a Wi-Fi Hotspot in the vehicle. So why pay another thirty (30) Day Contract for the same Data Service?
Thus with “backative” from her writings and my knowledge of Telecoms as a Radio frequency Technician from Telecom Provider
CLARO (2008 to 2009), I can of course validate this, as all the Data Service come from T1 the Telecom Provider purchases here in Jamaica, with the intent Service being provided by Servers in the USA.
Much as the Water in your pipe is the same Water in everyone’s pipe, coming from a centralized distributed source, so too is Data Services provisioned: a Shared Bandwidth Access, with over use or “hogging” of the bandwidth resulting in congestion and other persons not getting Water or Data Services as the case may be.
However a Rolling Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) Service as I had first suggested in
my blog article entitled “
LIME vs Digicel – The Truth About Charlie” and suggested as a means of using up the 100MBps Bandwidth then on offer from Telecoms Provider
CLARO’s much hyped and as yet launched LTE Service can only be economical in Jamaica if it is on a Data Plan that is assigned to a group of Devices or a Universal Data Plan as
CNET News Writer
Molly Wood points out.
Possibly (and most likely!) even provisioned via renting T1 access from the Fiber Optic Backhaul from the Government of Jamaica owned Island wide Fiber Optic Network, which would subsidize the cost of Broadband, effectively making it possible for the Government of Jamaica to offer Free, once you live near to one of those three (300) hundred schools slated for Internet Access:
1. FiOS (Fiber Optic Services) to your house
ADSL (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line) Services
2. Municipal Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) Services
3. Rolling Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) Services
4. Backhaul services for 3G, 4G and LTE Services, due to the unlimited capacity and upgradeability of Fiber Optic
These various permutations of Waveguide, Wired and Wireless are possible once the
Island wide Fiber Optic Network is completed in the next five (5) years.
Thus, Telecom Provider
Digicel may accelerate Telecoms Provider
CLARO’s LTE rollout.
This with a redrafting of the original Deployment of LTE to also include Telecom Provider
Digicel Mobile Towers as a means of ensuring coverage along the Railway Line as well as the coming of the Fiber Optic Broadband Access via this shared facility.
Then the installation of LTE-to-Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) Hotspots inside of the moving vehicles to seamlessly provide Wireless Broadband to customers not only on Taxis and JUTC Buses, as was my original suggestion, but also on the now soon-to-be-up and running JRC (Jamaica Railway Corporation) Passenger Railway Train Service.
Telecom Provider
Digicel WiMaX 4G Mobile (IEEE 802.16d,e), which uses a 2.5GHz spectrum suffers from Mobility and handover problems and thus is not suitable for this Service is evident from their advertising for Digicel 4G Broadband in stationary situations.
Almost as if conditioning users of the
Digicel WiMaX 4G
Mobile (IEEE 802.16d, e) Service to use it as a replacement for LIME ADSL of FLOW Cable Broadband without thought for demonstrating Mobility, as Telecoms Provider
CLARO 3G Network and Modem Dongle demonstrates!
Additionally, Telecom Provider
Digicel WiMaX 4G
Mobile (IEEE 802.16d, e) means that LOS (Line Of sight) is the best and optimal way to receive signal. If one is not positioned near a window, the Ads seem to suggest, then one cannot get Telecom Provider
Digicel WiMaX 4G Mobile (IEEE 802.16d,e), something which I have seen in practice while fixing computers by the way!
To make it sort, because it requires the
Ethernet
Port to function, if your Ethernet NIC (Network Interface Card) is not up to date in terms of the firmware, you may find that your computer is overwhelmed by the 10MBps data Service.
Thus, Telecom Provider
Digicel WiMaX 4G Mobile (IEEE 802.16d,e) is not a Modem Dongle of CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) of choice, as for a Technician on the road such as myself, it makes my job all that more complicated when I have to download drivers – one of which is for the very same your Ethernet NIC (Network Interface Card)!
Instant props from all IT Technicians for the Telecoms Provider
CLARO 3G Network and Modem Dongle!
My fingers crossed, as I await news of either the date of the start of the Passenger Railway Train Service or the subsequent launch of Launch of LTE, specifically if is to be provisioned with T1 access from the
Island wide Fiber Optic Network and will be offered free and as a Rolling Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) Service.
Even of greater interest to me, is if Data Plans on both the Telecoms Provider
CLARO’s LTE and the Telecom Provider
Digicel WiMaX 4G
Mobile (IEEE 802.16d, e) will be on a Universal Data Plan as
CNET News Writer
Molly Wood well heeled rant points out.
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