CELL PHONE INTERNET ACCESS
CELL PHONE INTERNET ACCESS This is designed to explain the basic approach to using your cell phone with your computer to connect to the internet. It is not intended to be an in depth coverage of t...
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I'm against TV thru the internet because the Packet-switched network is grossly inefficient for Video transmission. As a result, people who are temperate users get saddled with the costs and delays of intemperate TV watchers.
If you want to watch a TV or Movie you can pre-load it to your Computer from a BitTorrent site (which will share internet use for all, treating packets fairly).
Also, most metropolitan geographic areas have excellent OTA (Over The Air) HD broadcasts free, including commercial TV and Public TV, as well as FM and AM.
Cellphone access to TV compounds the problem since telephone speech transmission is inherently low-speed packet transmission: very poorly matched to TV visual live transmission rates.
The oligopolies (joint monopolies) that dominate the internet these days simply shift the cost of over-priced communications from foolish TV watchers to the frugal low volume internet user this amounts to a regressive tax: i.e., tax the poor (frugal) to pay the rich (prodigal) user. It's a regressive tax. A reverse Robin Hood.
Transmission requirements exhibit a bi-modal distribution: there are a large number of low-speed users at one end, and a large number of high-speed users at the other. Since the carriers are an oligopoly (monopoly) they are free to administer prices as they please, so the low-speed users will suffer to finance high-speed (TV) watchers.
It's cheating.
It was a big mistake to turn over the internet to commercial enterprises, who, with unerring instinct, found the sure path to extract huge fortunes from technology that was *free* to them. We should have kept the internet in the Postoffice and the universities. Then, the cost would be lower, service better,and Public services would be regularly financed without public subsidies.
If you want to watch a TV or Movie you can pre-load it to your Computer from a BitTorrent site (which will share internet use for all, treating packets fairly).
Also, most metropolitan geographic areas have excellent OTA (Over The Air) HD broadcasts free, including commercial TV and Public TV, as well as FM and AM.
Cellphone access to TV compounds the problem since telephone speech transmission is inherently low-speed packet transmission: very poorly matched to TV visual live transmission rates.
The oligopolies (joint monopolies) that dominate the internet these days simply shift the cost of over-priced communications from foolish TV watchers to the frugal low volume internet user this amounts to a regressive tax: i.e., tax the poor (frugal) to pay the rich (prodigal) user. It's a regressive tax. A reverse Robin Hood.
Transmission requirements exhibit a bi-modal distribution: there are a large number of low-speed users at one end, and a large number of high-speed users at the other. Since the carriers are an oligopoly (monopoly) they are free to administer prices as they please, so the low-speed users will suffer to finance high-speed (TV) watchers.
It's cheating.
It was a big mistake to turn over the internet to commercial enterprises, who, with unerring instinct, found the sure path to extract huge fortunes from technology that was *free* to them. We should have kept the internet in the Postoffice and the universities. Then, the cost would be lower, service better,and Public services would be regularly financed without public subsidies.
