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> Indirectly yes, they will ask why their computer is slow. Then they'll buy a new one and accept the salespitch for fiber gbps link. This evening there was that broadcast on our national radio about "white zones", I don't know if you listened to it. The 3 guests were directors in major telecommunication organisations and administrations of the country. They discussed how high-speed Internet should be available to ev…
That sarcastic example you're giving is most likely to be true. I had heated arguments on reddit with people (most likely gamers) being very tense about my dismissal of the need for FTTH. And the telecom companies are just in it for the new market, they couldn't care less about anything else. xDSL was also meant to be high speed for everybody, and it's not the case. And sadly, as long as there's a market, there will…
Moreover, if there is no market, one will soon be created to fill the void and make some money of any 'underused' resource until it saturates.
> I often want to assemble low bandwidth low power (solar powered even) router nodes. Something you could drop in a field and have a mile radius range of wifi (some people on youtube got more than that with a tiny esp8266 IC). The rest would be some mesh network topology. Just enough for simple data, emergency, maybe compressed voice you know.
People will laugh at you. If I understood correctly, 4G (not DOS ;-) ) has become a basic human right, and no-one should be deprived of it for a 10 minutes ride, be it in an underground 20 metres below surface or in a country bus in the middle of nowhere. I mean, megabit 3G is already almost everywhere in the country, but it seems it is not enough for a decent human life.