 a333A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY
 ·Cingular Wireless
1 edit | reply to hottboiinnc
Re: Only if you are less than 11K from the CO Errr.... WiMax not only involves investment in base stations and other equipment, along with CPE, but also spectrum. Incase you haven't noticed, spectrum isn't exactly free...... even carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless spent billions on measly allocations of frequencies. Also, wireless is all well and good when you have a mobile network, but when you have thousands of subscribers connecting to a single base station in a city for hours at a time, as is the case with fixed WiMax, you not only need a LOT of backhaul, you need HUGE amounts of spectrum, which costs astronomical amounts, compared to deploying a wired technology that runs on existing infrastructure. As of right now, only Sprint/Clear have the 100 Mhz/market spectrum to possibly even imagine serving up 6-10 Mbps speeds to large metro areas on a pseudo-reliable basis. Even then, you're probably going to have to impose some serious throttling/network management to keep things under control.
Best,
a333
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