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Originally Posted by Qtx
Personally I believe that breakthroughs in the near future will lead to all internet and tv being delivered via the air eventually. Vast IP networks via radiowave or similar that are perfectly reliable in all conditions with mega amounts of bandwidth available. Its more a case of when than if!
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Definitely not.
Radiowaves will always have limited bandwidth. That's just a fact of physics. They're prone to interference, which is why neighbouring freeview transmitters are on different frequencies, and your wi-fi performance sucks if your neighbours have networks on the same frequencies.
Radiowaves bounce. They're stopped by buildings, trees and the weather. They require a hell of a lot of power, relatively, to go any distance.
Lastly, radiowaves still need backhaul. Fibre or adsl2+ connections being backhaul from mobile phone towers. It'll all be moving to fibre now, so if there's fibre there anyway, why bother with unreliable wireless?
The future is fibre. It's cheap, it's fairly easy to repair, it's small so you can run multiple strands and have redundancy and true futureproofing, and it can transfer a silly amount of data with low latency.