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XO Holdings subsidiary Nextlink Wireless has launched wireless broadband service in another 25 markets, bringing its total to 37 and leading it to lay claim to operating the largest U.S. wireless broadband network.
The Nextlink services also will be sold by fellow XO Holdings subsidiary XO Communications to business users in all but one of those markets.
XO/Nextlink did not disclose plans for additional rollouts, but the company holds wireless spectrum in 75 market areas, so such a move is inevitable. The continuing rollout is a key part of XO Holdings' apparent plan to bring the two subsidiaries to life after a long period of financial doldrums (/TelecomWeb news break/, April 24, 2006).
The 25 new operational markets launched today include: Akron, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Colorado Springs, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Kansas City, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Nashville, Oakland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Sacramento, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose, Tucson and Wilmington.
Nextlink's existing broadband wireless service areas are Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Tampa and Washington, D.C. In all of those venues, XO/Nextlink offers last-mile and middle-mile backhaul services, including dedicated Internet access, metro Ethernet </search/?query=Ethernet>, and voice over IP (VoIP). In addition to resale of its wireless services by sister division XO Communications, Nextlink also hawks wireless services to carriers of all types as well as to cablecos, Internet service providers (ISPs) and even broadband over powerline (BPL </search/?query=BPL>) companies seeking faster network extension and market reach with wireless instead of fiber-optic deployment.
The company holds licensed local multipoint distribution system (LMDS) wireless spectrum in the 28 GHz - 31GHz and 39 GHz spectrum ranges, and it supports network speeds from 1.544 Mb/s (T-1) to as much as 155 Mb/s (OC-3).
"With this major expansion, Nextlink now operates the nation's largest broadband wireless access network in the United States," bragged Nextlink President and CEO Robert Beran. "Through our extensive reach, we can now offer our customers and reseller partners access to more than five million business locations with a wide range of scalable bandwidth options."
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