[Chapter-delegates] Fighting Homelessness, One Smartphone at a Time

[Carlos M. Martinez]

LTE is a L1-L2 technolgy for us Internet folk. It´s no more a walled
garden than Ethernet. It´s the use you make of it that matters.


On 4/16/15 9:33 AM, Christian de Larrinaga wrote:
> LTE is cell model for MITM and walled garden. Just check out VoLTE.
>
> Has a role to play but like its predecessor IMS. Is not about neutral
> carrier.
>
> On 16 April 2015 12:34:43 BST, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> wrote:
>
>     Dear Christian,
>
>     one of the paragraphs in your response particularly intrigued me and I
>     wonder if I can ask for clarification:
>
>     On 15/04/2015 11:16, Christian de Larrinaga wrote:
>
>         My preference for promoting a platform that would be truly
>         transformative over wireless would not be cell but wireless
>         Internet services. That is the only effective way to bring the
>         power of application and service innovation to the people
>         locally. It's the difference between being dependent (on cell)
>         to being in the driving seat (Internet data network) both from
>         enabling new networks to be set up by people themselves to
>         their developing and deploying applications. 
>
>
>     What do you mean by wireless Internet services? Via WIFI?
>
>     I am personally "sold" on LTE. Having used 
>      it in
>     extensively in
>     Singapore at 100Mb/s download AND upload, whether outside, in a hotel,
>     in a taxi, underground, on a subway train. I have no idea how they did
>     this but LTE worked everywhere. Implemented correctly, LTE really opened
>     my mind to understand ubiquitous connectivity. I stopped thinking "do I
>     have Internet?" and made constant use of my mobile to help me find my
>     way in an unknown environment - so much so that I felt like I "belonged"
>     there. I can see the benefit of such service for trade and exchange at
>     all levels, both in developed and in developing economies.
>     All to say that I have real concerns about another technology gap
>     opening: reliable, fast LTE or not.
>
>     To summarise, I really believe the mobile Internet is an opportunity for
>     all countries but in the current arms race where "faster is better"
>     whilst the principles are great, the infrastructure costs are going to
>     put a serious strain on
>     developing country economies.
>     Kind regards,
>
>     Olivier
>
>
> -- 
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
>
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