Will acknowledge that my understanding of wimax is limited--but from
what I've discovered it's the wimax card that does the filtering. And
that it ain't flying in the UK is no surprise as their hi-speed is even
more of a monopoly shop there than here.
But in SA it's very much alive and well. That's where I first heard of
it, via a friend in Sao Paolo who used routinely to send me thirty and
forty-meg attachments on email till I hinted at the long d'load times on
this end and asked her what kind of speeds she was getting.
The day after the mayor of Philly decided that all of Philadelphia would
have free internet and started implementing wiMax, bomcast invaded the
beltway and launched their anti-wimax lobby. They are happy to go on
keeping the terms "internet" and "affordable" mutually exclusive.
(The fact that they actually acknowledged that they've been throttling
bandwidth is perhaps a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.
Mike Cherba wrote:
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 08:56 -0700, dooger watts wrote:
Still no wimax in amerika. 40mbps wireless for 20 bux a month,
piggybacking on existing cells--that's what the rest of the world has.
The bomcast lobby has really been effective at keeping this out. So
effective most amerikans have never even heard of wimax.
Dooger,
I'd have to beg to differ. I haven't seen Wimax take off in any of the
other countries that I regularly visit or support next gen home gateway
development in. ( Japan, Korea, Taiwan, UK, Germany, etc) The next
generation seems to be a lot of PON stuff,
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_optical_network )
or faster/better cable/DSL.
Besides, we do have Wimax here. What do you think Clearwire is? Wimax
isn't neccesarily any faster, or any more symmetrical. In fact wireless
as an internet access method lends itself very well to an asymetrical
service model. Plus with the variety of other wireless devices active
in the US the RF interferance issues are going to be a big problem for
quite a while. Not so mention the insecurity of the link.
I'd suggest that it isn't the existing broadband providers that are
keeping this out, but rather the inherent difficulties in rolling out
this service in a profitable manner. (Which is equivalent to the
building out of a nationwide cellular network.)
-Mike
"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a
cradle." - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
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