According to the Washington Post a coalition has formed between Microsoft, Google, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Philips with plans to develop and offer high-speed Internet access over the TV airwaves. This might not seem it but it is really is big news for UK if the coalition pull it off technically (and have few doubt they won't).As we gear up for full 2012 Digital Switchover, which will see the analogue signal "swicthed off", it could very well mean a massive license sell-off of the free'd up spectrum like previous mobile license sell-offs. I wonder how long it will be before a start-up ISP is formed in preparation?
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Whatever happened to internet and telephony over power cables? That was a meme c 8 years ago? Norweb inter alia.
It's out there. You can also do it with home networking, see
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/02/05/review_solwise_homeplug_av/
cheers, will check the URL
Dizzy, Tv transmitters transmit, TV's receive. End of. There fore you can't do a two way conversation.
However, if you freed up bandwidth you could use that for anything you felt like.
There is a snag though, the TV bandwidth space is a series of 6MB wide channels. Digital TV cuts the bandwidth but what will HD TV do?
There are about 68 channels available in the spectrum. Do the maths. It doesn't work out in terms of two way high speed internet. (Unless you own the whole channel both ways , but that kind of limits the audience),
I don't think theire suggesting their going to use tv transmitters as such BW. I think it's being seen as a extension of 3G wifi.
We'll have to wait for the RFC that this coalition brings out I guess.
Dizzy -
Check out "Now" and Pipex Wireless - they're already live (albeit in limited geographical areas) with this technology running on other parts of the spectrum.
The problem is basically that the service is almost completely pointless: in urban areas it's more expensive to run than DSL or cable; while in rural areas there isn't enough custom to cover network costs. And HSDPA (3.5G, with very low upgrade costs from 3G) provides comparable data rates anyway using mobile operators' existing infrastructure.
BT has a legal obligation to offer broadband to some large % of the population by some date (sorry, can't be bothered to look it up), so might be interested, but there just doesn't seem any scope for a nationwide commercial service.
John B
With IPTV internet might actually get more affordable since cable companies will redistribute their cable TV bandwidth to internet. So the future of high speed internet is still not known.
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Thats not much of a big deal. I already do it at home. I mean it is more convenient on my plasma but not revolutionary. Who knows when that deal will go through. My high speed internet service provider is fast and reliable, and offers a variety of broadband services, thats for sure. Hopefully they will jump on that band wagon as well lol. http://afforadablet1.com
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