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Researchers from the Australian government science agency CSIRO have developed new technology which could achieve connection speeds to compete with the best: through the tangled piece of metal already attached to most roofs.
"The basic premise is if you get good high quality analogue television you should be able to get reliable high-speed communications," project leader Dr Ian Oppermann said.
Sounds like handwavium...
"Unlike current GSM or 3G networks which lose download speed exponential to increasing users, Dr Oppermann said an analogue signal would provide a consistent speed no matter how many users there were."
Next problem, upstream, unless it will be satellite style with a dialup modem backchannel, though actually a system like that would be a reasonable contender compared to satellite.
Radio Hams have been doing it for 20 years although at a lot lower bandwidth over a simplex FM/USB signal (packet radio) Suprised that the Australians didn;t take this further forward years ago
Oh wow, they're actually going for two way, I was assuming satellite style, using the TV tower to transmit a one way high speed downstream.
I still don't get the "consistent speed", unless they are going to use frequency division and serve 1 user per frequency.
The other thing, one "analogue TV" bandwith is less than a single Wifi channel
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