{"id":3780,"date":"2010-07-27T06:35:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T10:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2017-01-24T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:38:43","slug":"a-month-of-wireless-ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=3780","title":{"rendered":"A month of wireless IP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For almost a full month, I have been operating without a\u00a0wireline internet connection, and the sky hasn&#8217;t fallen.<\/p>\n<p>My son had 3 graduate student friends staying with us and you can bet that they were exercising the <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=3731\" target=\"_blank\">satellite broadband<\/a> that has been powering our main internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>The other connection that we have used has been mobile internet, using a USB stick.<\/p>\n<p>It is somewhat strange that the CRTC has <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=3775\" target=\"_blank\">asked for comments<\/a> from people as to whether wireless internet is a substitute for wireline &#8211; or for that matter, why is the CRTC asking if mobile telephony is a substitute, when its own communications industry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/eng\/publications\/reports\/policymonitoring\/2009\/cmr23.htm#b49\" target=\"_blank\">monitoring report<\/a> found that 8% of households were wireless only as of a year and a half ago.<\/p>\n<p>What, then, is the purpose of the CRTC asking for consumers to answer<a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=3775\" target=\"_blank\"> these questions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/o2s.publivate.ca\/index.php?lang=en&amp;challengeid=3&amp;option=com_publivateideamodule&amp;task=viewideas&amp;view=all&amp;ideaid=&amp;commentid=&amp;voteid=&amp;id=\">Do you think that cellphone service can be a substitute for traditional home phone landline service? Explain why or why not.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/o2s.publivate.ca\/index.php?lang=en&amp;challengeid=4&amp;option=com_publivateideamodule&amp;task=viewideas&amp;view=all&amp;ideaid=&amp;commentid=&amp;voteid=&amp;id=\">Do you think that wireless services (e.g. Wi-Fi, 3G networks or satellite) can be substitutes for landline services to connect to the Internet? Explain why or why not.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost a full month, I have been operating without a\u00a0wireline internet connection, and the sky hasn&#8217;t fallen. My son had 3 graduate student friends staying with us and you can bet that they were exercising the satellite broadband that has been powering our main internet connection. The other connection that we have used has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=3780\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A month of wireless IP<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A month of wireless IP &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For almost a full month, I have been operating without a\u00a0wireline internet connection, and the sky hasn&#039;t fallen. 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