"At some point, the cheapest infrastructure to deliver the highest number of bits to the largest number of people is all going to be wireless," Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen says.
That has to be a contested notion, as fiber to the home advocates would say there is just no way wireless can supply as much bandwidth as a waveguide approach.
But there's a likely contextual element. Most observers without a business stake in the answer would say that wireless is the most-affordable way to deliver the highest number of bits to the largest number of people in a developing or rural area, quickly.
But that's a business definition, not strictly a scientific or technical answer. And that is the context within which Ergen says that wireless eventually will be the cheapest way to deliver lots of bandwidth.
Of course, that also would reflect Ergen's history in the satellite TV business, which features many of the same economic advantages as mobile service does, in terms of quickly and cheaply delivering television to harder-to-serve areas.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Wireless Wins, Dish CEO Says
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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