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Serving up snippets of grub for the mind wallaby
Back in November 2005 Manx Telecom announced their plans to rollout one of the first HSDPA networks in the world. Those of you who read this blog will be aware of my interest in all things geo and map based. So naturally I was interested in being able to be online at broadband speeds anywhere I went. I went to a demonstration of the technology last week and although it doesn’t work too well within steel framed buildings (faraday cage effect?) the performance outdoors is superb.
BUT
according to one of the slides I saw at the presentation, the coverage and speeds available away from urban areas fade away to nothing. So the idea of being on-line at the top of a mountain, broadcasting geolocated live video feed straight to the net is a little way off yet.
However the target market for this type of technology is largely urban based, so I can forsee developers making use of the extra bandwidth to get very creative with their video/map based mashups.
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February 16th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
One of the big problems on the Isle of Man though is that rural locations aren’t served very well. Admittedly, Manx Telecom do seem to have done a good job with connecting communities with broadband, there are still many outlying properties that don’t have access to broadband. I was hoping that HSDPA would help in this, but from what you’re saying it sounds like it won’t be of much use. Was there any indication of how far from urban areas the system would work?
February 19th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
The impression I was left with was that if you can get a mobile signal, you can get a HSDPA signal. I reckon the speed might be related to how many bars you get on your phone?