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The sky is falling
My view of the telco future is bleak, unless they change.
I think that in the not-too-distant future, rather than mobile phones, there will be a lot more work in wi-fi style networks, which allow VoIP systems like Skype.
In fact, depending on whether or not governments choose to enable or be roadblocks, you will eventually have a satellite service with decent bandwidth as an interim, and then finally a mesh environment with no centralised control at all.
It is the lack of control that scares government and business, which will potentially put a temporary stop to the mesh implementation ( where each node can talk directly to the node nearest, without the need for a hierarchical control mechanism ).
Frankly, I'd love to see satelitte cards in devices, so that I could bypass my telco entirely, and be able to talk to my neighbours through their own base stations directly.
Imagine a napster style community model that enables the leveraging of long distance wireless networks, without regulatory interference, control, or cost.
Nirvana.
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