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Re: private 5G networks?


From: Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 15:04:22 -0500


To come back on Private 5G networks. Can a private 5G network protect
against spyware like Pegazus?


No disrespect intended here, but you are essentially asking if going from
2.4GHz Wifi to 5GHz wifi will make things more secure.  I'm sure you know
the answer to that.

Private 5G is just a method for local spectrum allocation that does not
require a full FCC license. That's it.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 12:37 PM Jean St-Laurent via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
wrote:

You're absolutely right and I agree with your line of thought.

Strangely, there is apparently a lawsuit of $150B against Meta for for
facilitating Rohingya Genocide . I am not sure how valid it is and where it
will go, but $150B is quite something.

It looks like the price a country has to pay after a war.

These cloud providers failed to not polarize the debate. They interfere in
the process and it's illegal nearly everywhere except online for the cloud
providers.

It's like if you telco would give faster speed to inflammatory tweets and
slowed down the tweets that don't generate fud.

Telco are at the moment in a much better position than cloud providers in
my opinion. The train started to anticipate the curve and it's already
changing direction.

To come back on Private 5G networks. Can a private 5G network protect
against spyware like Pegazus?

Jean

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Sent: December 6, 2021 10:02 AM
To: Jean St-Laurent <jean () ddostest me>; nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: private 5G networks?



On 12/6/21 15:56, Jean St-Laurent wrote:

I vouch for fairness.

It seems there might be a shift in how we consume services around the
world. It's like a train. You can't turn 90 degrees. You need to start a
smooth curve many miles ahead if you want your train to turn and reach the
destination.

How leaders govern will be more important. The decisions they make today
and the partners they choose will set the direction for this train.

The problem with this approach is that it assumes industrial-revolution
business practices where corporations set the standard, and customers
follow.

This does not work anymore in the modern world, because what the content
folk have done is create platforms where users set the the standard, and
corporations follow.

In the old days, if a service didn't work, we complained, sued, cried, the
lot, and took it on the chin. Nowadays, if a service doesn't work, you
silently delete the app, and move on to someone else.

But corporations don't get good (read: negative) feedback, because they
are too busy building and selling products, rather than build and selling
experiences, like the content folk do. Because they are blind to this
feedback, they don't see the churn that is happening (after all, it's like
a slow tyre leak), as users quietly migrate for a better experience, and
not a better product. 5 years later, they wonder how they lost 50% of their
customer base. I'm already seeing it with a number of traditional banks,
here in Africa.

Gartner (another typical corporation) just shared this the other day:

     https://ibb.co/c8PFRyQ

... and as you can clearly see, the "customer" experience is not top of
their agenda for the typical CEO, for the coming year. Instead, it's a
bunch of other things that make zero sense. How do you grow if you don't
look after customers?

Users have moved on so fast due the ascension of the base expectation of
value, companies that are willing to consider that the best they can do is
create an experience that improves the likelihood of a user giving them a
chance - rather than forcing a product sale on customers with the intention
of meeting the YoY target that was printed in the boardroom PPT slides -
will be the ones that have a chance to not only survive, but actually
flourish.

If Amazon can democratize the mobile network by providing a cloud-based
EPC, we might never have to be subjected to the unimaginative services we
pay lots of money for, to typical mobile operators. I mean, if there is
anyone with the time, money, people, data and network, it's surely Amazon,
as well as the peers in their group.


Maybe cloud boys and girls are also about to get a fair shake.

What the cloud and content folk have perfected is the art of being
unsatisfied with the current customer experience. Their continued search
for how they can make just one thing about their service better and more
pleasurable to use, is what keeps them in favour with the user. For as long
as they can maintain that ethos, they will be setting the rules.

It does help that they also play well together, so they don't have
out-compete each other for business like we, in the telco world,
continuously do... much to our collective detriment.

Mark.



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