Third world networkers views on over built networks driven by the clueless

*Overdone networks are hard to recover cash from, design wisely....

‘overbuild-at-all-cost’, We need more, we'll sell more, this is not enough! are terms I get to hear often. You build a network, someone decides the nodes look too 'small', you buy bigger for more money of course. No business driver at all. No plan on how to sell the capacity nothing!. well nothing that seems to make sense to me.....

I've read alot on economic decline, how a society doing so well slowly goes down, how it slowly atrophies and dies. It's rarely obvious or in your face, its like a cancer creeping up on you. Again so slowly.

Denial!, fight off competition, fight new technologies that you don't understand, get rid of people showing some initiative....die die die...

Lets do AMR (Automated Meter reading) - no, its too complex, oh actually no it's not I say, Hey I said no- says the boss. Oh how about wifi offload? No! it's a bad idea ; no actually It's not, its perfect...haha you're on thin ice. Well guess what, I foresee wi-fi taking over alot of data in the future - not very far off future....we'll see....