The broadband of the future is wireless

The old copper network for fixed telephones in Norway was discontinued at the turn of the year, bringing to the fore the question of how we meet future needs for communication solutions. Brdy believes that the future is wireless.

In today’s copper network, you can find components that were manufactured before 1930, and which are still in use.

– The copper network has been an important infrastructure for the development of our society for over a hundred years. Today, customers choose new solutions over fibre and mobile, says managing director Stig Myklebust in Brdy.

– It goes without saying that it is expensive to maintain the copper network in order for it to satisfy today’s requirements for modern communication, says Myklebust.

Safety

– New ways of solving things have often created uncertainty among the users of the services. In the recent past, it is worth thinking back to the opposition to the closure of the post offices and when the telephone boxes disappeared.

– It is only natural that we are confident in the old and familiar, and are sceptical of the new.

– Today, few of us miss post offices and telephone boxes.

We also saw this scepticism when it became known that the old copper network was to be phased out.

– Some became insecure when they no longer had to have a wire to their landline at home, even if they were walking around with a mobile phone in their pocket at the same time, smiles Myklebust.

– It is important to be clear that all developments in modern communication are governed by what users demand and what is offered in the market.

– After the mobile phone became public property, the need for telephone boxes disappeared, says Myklebust.

– When banking services were digitized and we got payment terminals in shops and online banking on the PC at home, the need for post offices and bank branches disappeared.

– Wireless communication is at least as safe as wired. Remember that we have already relied on wireless signals for messaging, radio, telephony and later TV for well over a hundred years.

Development

– Modern communication has developed continuously from the establishment of the Post Office in 1647, via the Telegraph Office’s first copper cable in 1877 and until today.

– The development in electronic communication in the last 30 years has been formidable. From fixed telephony and physical mail, to communication solutions over optical fibre and wireless advanced broadband solutions, data and mobile phones, points out Myklebust.

– Today we expect good broadband coverage everywhere we travel, says Myklebust.

The future is wireless

– In Brdy, we have particularly specialized in satellite broadband and wireless 5G broadband for companies, houses and cottages. This is the future, and is more cost-effective than, for example, fibre, he believes.

– I believe that we deliver the most forward-looking and effective solutions that get customers online at a good price. We solve your needs and have some of the best players in the market on the team, points out Myklebust.

– Here we deliver the most effective broadband solutions for companies and individuals, and solve any challenges with the technology that best suits the individual’s needs. That is our great advantage, points out Myklebust.

Best product at the right price

Brdy believes that far too many Norwegian broadband customers pay more than they need when it comes to broadband capacity and speed in relation to what they use.

– For us, it’s about finding the right solution for each individual so that you get a good price, and speeds that cover your actual needs, says Myklebust.

– If you discover that you need a higher speed, you can always upgrade, he says.

– Our solutions are easy to set up, it is fast and stable, and you are online immediately – with super coverage and at a reasonable price.

– We solve all your needs – wirelessly and regardless of where you live. The future is wireless, concludes managing director Stig Myklebust at the broadband specialist Brdy.

Brief background – telephony and broadband:

In the same way as with the first mobile phones, the first phones were exclusive and often reserved for the wealthy. Until 1940, the number of telephone subscribers increased to 150,000, but in 1954 there were still 100,000 on the waiting list. And the waiting lists were not abolished until 1985. The history of the Internet began little by little in the 1960s with a series of attempts to develop so-called protocols, for connecting computers over long distances.

Previous forms of dial-up connection resulted in very poor utilization of the line capacity. Each connection took up a telephone line – it’s like having a road where only one car is allowed to drive at a time. The term “Internet” was used for the first time in 1974, and the Norwegian university network UNINETT was launched in 1978.

Everything still took place over the copper cables. Even the internet was not spared, and many probably have memories of the modem’s cacophony of controlled crackles and rhythmic little bangs. In 1981, the NMT network – the first mobile network – was launched in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. In the beginning, the mobile phone was something that GPs and company managers stuck with. There were mobile phones over a 1G network in brick-and-mortar format with an accompanying carrying case. Beyond the 90s, NMT is replaced by the digital GSM network, and we get innovations such as SMS and snake games.

The mobile phone is becoming more than just a phone with which you can call others. It becomes a personal asset and communication is wireless. This is the actual breakthrough for modern wireless communication. Around the turn of the millennium, Posten and the banks took the consequences of the development. Bank cards and electronic transfer of money and letters outcompeted physical branches, and bank in store and Post i Butikk replaced the self-operated offices.

In the 1990s, the Internet and the World Wide Web became the dominant form of communication between computers and between people. WWW and http are made widely available in 1993, and the first browser Mosaic is launched. The first major online store, amazon.com, was launched in 1994 and when the Netscape Navigator browser was launched in 1995, traffic on the web exploded almost overnight.

Over the next six years, a number of key social media platforms will see the light of day, including Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. In 1998 came Google, Wikipedia in 2001, and Facebook was launched in the US in 2004.

The first smartphone hit the market in 1994 (IBM Simon Personal Communicator), but it was only after the iPhone arrived in 2007 that the smartphone became popular.

The further development is formidable, and today the vast majority of people walk around with a computer in their pocket.

The phone is so much more than a phone.

Sources: Store Norske Leksikon, Digitalt Museum, Wikipedia, telenor.no and more.