| Phone, DSL, etc It seems to me that rural areas are getting the shaft again. I think that 4G wireless technologies have the best opportunities to serve these underserved areas. WiMax can be used at 3-6mpbs at distances up to 30 mi from a base antenna I believe. Thats assuming the customer has an outside directional antenna at their premesis probably and relative line of sight. All of the 4G technologies do not require line of sight closer to the towers I think.
LTE in the long run appears to be the best overall. The only downside is that when VZ and ATT implemenent LTE it will take forever for it to be offered in small town and rural locations. Also, you can guarantee it will be fairly expensive for what you get and have some ridiculous 10-40G caps on the service which means you won't really be able to take advantage of its full capability.
I don't know if Clearwire has any kind of cap on their service. Satellite sucks for similar reasons. Not only is the latency horrible but the caps are too restrictive and service is too expensive although its a reasonable solution where no others are possible assuming you can afford it. |
