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On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, tom wrote:
On 19/01/11 15:40, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, tom wrote:On 19/01/11 12:46, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, tom wrote:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/17/lanefox_pcs_for_all/A bit more here:http://www.techspot.com/news/42005-uk-government-to-offer-pcs-for-98-internet-for-9.html And in /. this morning too.Mobile broadband rather than fixed-line. Very intersting (for me, for some of the stuff I'm doing right now)GordonAh so a money making scam under the guise of getting people on line then!How so? I can't see this making money at all.And there's nothing wrong with making money - is there? Someone has to pay for the mobile infrastructure at some point, and mobile data is very expensive... Three are claiming they're rolling out over 100 new base stations a month with promises of up to 14Mb/sec... Someone has to pay for that...GordonSomeone will have to pay - the taxpayer.
You're even more cynical than me!
I haven't found any details of how its to be set up but I bet the taxpayer will foot most of the bill.
Not sure. They are starting with recycled (or are recycling) PCs. So the raw-material costs will be low.
It appears to be Remploy http://www.remploy.co.uk/ who're doing the refurbishment and selling of the PCs. I'm not sure if they're goverment funded/qango/etc. but they've been going a long time and doing refurbishment sort of work for a long time too.
Its a pc so a mobile dongle is really only of use where you cant get BB.
When sold as a bundle, it makes sense for people who might not have BB.
And where cant you get BB - generally the same remote places you cant get mobile.
Not always.
So we're going to be subsidising the mobile operators (not Remploy) to put in infrastructure so they can make a fortune from other users. That's why mobile data is expensive - because they make a lot of profit out of it!The more I look at it the more a farce it becomes - apart from the linux bit.
I'm not convinced we will be subsidising Three (the mobile operator behind it). £9 a month will get you enough broadband at their published rates to do a moderate amount of surfing. You're surviving on 1GB, aren't you?
Three are expanding their network and have some very interesting deals going - at the wholesale level. My suspicions is that they're the one to watch this year... I reckon there will be a bit of a shakeup when Voda and O2 start to use 900Mhz for 3G data too... Three are way ahead of the race..
Gordon
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