MTC And The Miracle Of Technology

WOW. MTC have really outdone themselves – and the rest of the world – with their new 3G broadband service.

1 megabyte per second. This is substantially faster than my of- ?ce’s network, which clocks in at 1 gigabit per second.And this for the Internet? Again: wow.We go from a needlessly – indeed arti?cially – slow Internet backwater into positively ethereal realms of speed, faster even than anything available outside of a computer research lab in fabled South Korea, known to be one of the most connected countries in the world.And this on a long-range wireless network, no less! MTC’s engineers have not only achieved a quantum leap in speed, but they have overcome the substantial problems faced by Intel’s wireless research division, which is struggling to develop a cost-effective solution capable of delivering wireless gigabit networking over short range.What is strange is also their modesty.When asked, nobody at MTC seems to be aware how revolutionary their 3G gigabit Internet service really is, and that for the low-low price that is being offered.And now I read that using their ‘plus’ plan, I can get a laptop with a 15′ screen.Fifteen feet – that’s four and a half metres! Again, wow.Apple has a very tasty laptop, The MacBook Pro, but that is equipped with a rather poky 17″ screen.Dell even offers a 20″ screen on a laptop.But those 20 inches pale in comparison to MTC’s specially adapted HP laptop, with a massive 15′ or 180″ screen! With such a beast, I could get rid of my cumbersome home cinema; just perch my enormo-laptop in the corner, and away I go.I could perhaps even play Dance-Dance Revolution on the keyboard.Massively multiplayer role-playing games would take on a whole new level of immersion, since I’d be the same size as the characters on the screen.Fantastic! Since it’s portable, I can even take it on the road, in a suitably huge vehicle.I could ?nally realise my dream of having a drive-in cinema wherever I go – a plan with no drawbacks! For a minute there, I lived in a fantastic dream world where Namibia was at the forefront of technology, but then I awoke to ?nd myself in a world where Namibia needs better proofreaders.Anonymous Coward WindhoekThis is substantially faster than my of- ?ce’s network, which clocks in at 1 gigabit per second.And this for the Internet? Again: wow.We go from a needlessly – indeed arti?cially – slow Internet backwater into positively ethereal realms of speed, faster even than anything available outside of a computer research lab in fabled South Korea, known to be one of the most connected countries in the world.And this on a long-range wireless network, no less! MTC’s engineers have not only achieved a quantum leap in speed, but they have overcome the substantial problems faced by Intel’s wireless research division, which is struggling to develop a cost-effective solution capable of delivering wireless gigabit networking over short range.What is strange is also their modesty.When asked, nobody at MTC seems to be aware how revolutionary their 3G gigabit Internet service really is, and that for the low-low price that is being offered.And now I read that using their ‘plus’ plan, I can get a laptop with a 15′ screen.Fifteen feet – that’s four and a half metres! Again, wow.Apple has a very tasty laptop, The MacBook Pro, but that is equipped with a rather poky 17″ screen.Dell even offers a 20″ screen on a laptop.But those 20 inches pale in comparison to MTC’s specially adapted HP laptop, with a massive 15′ or 180″ screen! With such a beast, I could get rid of my cumbersome home cinema; just perch my enormo-laptop in the corner, and away I go.I could perhaps even play Dance-Dance Revolution on the keyboard.Massively multiplayer role-playing games would take on a whole new level of immersion, since I’d be the same size as the characters on the screen.Fantastic! Since it’s portable, I can even take it on the road, in a suitably huge vehicle.I could ?nally realise my dream of having a drive-in cinema wherever I go – a plan with no drawbacks! For a minute there, I lived in a fantastic dream world where Namibia was at the forefront of technology, but then I awoke to ?nd myself in a world where Namibia needs better proofreaders.Anonymous Coward Windhoek