| Forget WiFi; start getting ready for citywide mobile Wimax They would not need to mount as many transceivers and would get wider coverage. And they could afford to place new poles where poles without electric wires weren't available.
And by the time everything gets moving mobile Wimax will have been tested in more locations. |
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 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | Welcome to 2003! I find it hard to believe that cities are even still looking into this. Wifi work great in most residential situations, but thats where it ends. Wifi enabled devices suck power like and thirsty elephant. Every consumer device under the sun interferes with wifi. Wifi's limited range mean you need AP's every few hundred feet.
Its almost 2008 people. We have Wimax, 3G, 4G, and many other solutions that are far better suited for cities. Get off the wifi bandwagon and get with the times.
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Re: Forget WiFi; start getting ready for citywide mobile Wimax Yeah, I feel sorry for cities that have been suckered into a technology designed for a 300' radius, thinking it could blanket a city.
If cities are willing to subsidize 3rd party companies to do WiFi, they may as well subsidize part of the WiMAX rollout in their cities. |
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Wimax is on the horizon...we've already got AT&T beating down the City and County Government doors looking for avenues to deploy it in 2008.
Wifi, on the other hand, will still serve it's purpose. For the near term, it's still much more readily available and significantly less expensive. From the long distance point to point links (we operate in the less crowded unlicensed 5Ghz bands) to the 2.4Ghz unlicensed spectrum (which is quite crowded these days, but suitable for shorter distance and indoor operations), don't discount wifi just yet.
AT&T tells us Wimax will be targeted initially as a mobile solution and most likely deployed in a grid scenario. |
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