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> The bandwidth used by a whiteboard + audio stream is minimal. Might be the case in theory, but I've yet to get a WebEx or Youtube live stream working reliabl
by vertex-four 12y ago
> The bandwidth used by a whiteboard + audio stream is minimal.
Might be the case in theory, but I've yet to get a WebEx or Youtube live stream working reliably over 3G from my own home.
Paying market rates doesn't help when the infrastructure is already struggling to deal with current, unsubsidised load. 3G/4G based Internet is a dead end in reality, barring huge technical leaps.
- rayiner 12y agoExisting 4G networks are plenty fast for educational streaming, and the additional load from a few subsidized users watching MOOCs isn't going to break the bank. Take a place like downtown Wilmington, DE, the kind of city that would be a key target for such a program. On T-Mobile, I'd regularly get 8-15 mbps. Your argument ignores a key demographic statistic: 80% of people below the poverty level already have cell phones, while under 60% have computers.[1] Given trends in PC-use, that disparity is going to increase, not decrease. Subsidizing cell phones is a much better fit for the social trends in poor communities. [1] http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census-americans-poverty-typically-have-cell-phones-computers-tvs http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census....