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2015-06-04: Bell Canada has to compete in Canada and perhaps expand their services/products elsewhere. Mobile routers?
> “It has to become socially unacceptable to admit to another human being that you are VPNing into U.S. Netflix,” <
I'm not sure about VPN to US Netflix, but I have subscribed to Netflix for movies with my address, not a US address. So it's a legal subscription. If it's illegal CRTC or Canadian regulators would shut it down.
Btw, Internet is a network of computers around the world. This would help us to learn more things quickly using our computer, thus this is not an illegal thing.
VPN is a dedicated product to allow people to use their computer network securely. This VPN has been used by many corporations for remote access to their network by their staff from home or travel, i.e. like an extended private network. For Internet use, it'd make no difference.
Btw, Bell Media has to compete by offering best products or channels at competitive or good prices as compared to their competitors like Netflix. A poster said that Bell's profit margin was 300%. It's way too high to complain.
Bell wireless must offer better devices or products like they did for cottage residents, i.e. WiFi Internet anywhere by mobile networks. It seems to me that users must purchase a special tablet for this Internet WiFi using a mobile subscription. It's nice to get another subscription fee, but how many users would do so? How about making a mobile phone that users would use for phone calls, Internet, and WiFi, i.e. target a mass users. All users would have portable Internet WiFi where ever they go. I guess, many mobile users would subscribe to an unlimited data plan for Internet WiFi, i.e. kids playing on a tablet in a car for a long trip.
-> Tablet Flex Plan was good for as low as $5/month, but realistically which kids used only 10MB of data for Internet games? It'd be likely $40/month for 5GB of data.
-> Anyways "Whether you pay full price upfront, pay full price with installments or bring your own tablet, you can share the data from your current Bell voice & data smartphone plan with your tablet for $10/month [for 100MB of data?]" It's good to try out new stuff.
* Years ago, wireless operators have introduced wireless USB sticks to offer mobile Internet with a laptop. However users considered it as expensive and rarely used, thus it's not widely used.
Source: http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/bell-medias-new-leader-urges-public-shaming-to-combat-piracy-we-have-to-tell-people-theyre-stealing?__lsa=603b-b67b
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Bell has excellent work forces and expertise in running wireless network, satellite TV, fiber [Internet] TV, and Internet services. How about acquire a small wireless operators or a TV station somewhere in the world and then build the same network of services as Bell had in Canada?
- Eastern Europe
- Latin America
- Russia
- Asia
US market is very profitable, but very competitive. Western Europe would be similar to USA, I guess.
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During late 90's or early 2000's probably, I was working for Ericsson on mobile telephony, thus I was kind of familiar to mobile phone. At that time we only had DSL Internet with telephone cable to a modem and Ethernet cable connected many computers in house from room to room. Probably we had laptop, too, but very expensive.
Perhaps we were working for data channels [similar to datacom for a computer network] for a mobile phone [GPRS] at that time. Suddenly I looked at my desktop PC and wondered if we could use a mobile phone as a mobile modem to a PC or perhaps laptop. This way we would be able to get Internet anywhere we went. We didn't have WiFi or Bluetooth at that time.
[By the way, I couldn't recall many things clearly.]
Now we have WiFi, thus a mobile phone connected to wireless telephony networks could offer Internet WiFi as a mobile router to other devices like a tablet.
* Is this hard to do? I guess, "No". All technologies are there. Only to combine or integrate those.
-> a mobile phone does have WiFi already to connect to a home WiFi router.
-> a mobile phone could connect to wireless telephony Internet.
-> tons of WiFi routers available for home users.
-> mobile phone's OS is like a computer OS, i.e. powerful enough.
-> Anyways there should be something like WiFi protocol stack and 2G/3G/4G protocol stacks. We could use those to develop applications to offer mobile router on a mobile phone.
Btw, having good applications to offer better life to people is a better option for engineers and scientists.
* By the way, a mobile router would be a good device for entertainment with affordable cost. However it would give those crazy out there more tools to attack others. What else could we say?
* I knew that many mobile phone users would select unlimited data plan if a mobile router is available.
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2018-12-09:
In those days, perhaps in the '90s, I saw something on the web and thought
about having web phones to communicate with others worldwide for free.
Around
the same time as thinking about asking corporates such as Ericsson to give
spare capacity to use for Internet communications to their local offices. For
example, Ericsson had offices in Australia, England, Mexico, USA, Canada,
Germany, etc. by connecting calls using their connections to route calls from
Canada to those countries, we would only pay for local calls instead of long
distance. Anyway, back in those days long distance calls was so expensive even
within Canada. Now users have lots of Internet phones to communicate with each
other for free.
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Our dial-up 56 Kbps at home was very slow
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Ericsson's network was so fast.
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