Posted on 09/07/2004 7:53:30 PM PDT by El Conservador
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My wife won't have it!
Yeah (chuckle) - I'll pass...
which companies are going to make the capital investments to build out yet another wireless data technology?
It means millions more monkeys will be pounding on a keyboard. We shall see if Shakespeare results, or it will become just another way to conveniently get porn. ;)
Don't write it off. My first high speed connection was an early form of WiMAX. AT&T had thier telephone and high speed internet via microwave dish. It worked great! No latency or problems like yo0u get with cable modems. Then AT&T decided it wasn;t profitable enough and bailed out. Sounds like the same think only cellular.
I thought the drawback with WiMax was that you had to sit still - it wouldn't work in a moving car. Maybe they've solved that.
Tinfoil will block this?
Big ditto. I connect at a whopping 33k out in the sticks.
I'm sure it works. I'm just not sure about the security aspect of it. It'll be a long time before I head into wireless.
Isn't DSL available in your area?
Dial up here.....Too many hills and trees for even a TV dish.
Anything to put those cable monopolies and their bribed politicians outta bidnys! You can scream "socialism" all you want but a local township has a city run cable TV and Net access for 1/2 the price of your "free market" monopolies!
Where I live, in a private place, we do not have cable tv. We have to have Direct TV satellite. Their solution for access to the internet is for us to spend $600 for their box, plus $75/month for the priveledge of using their services. We cannot afford these expenses. Freepers, Any ideas?
Um... DSL???
..which companies are going to make the capital investments to build out yet another wireless data technology?..
I don't think this will involve that. The current wireless transmission technologies are GSM and CDMA; one of them will be employed to actually transmit the data through the air. CDMA, most likely, since the only 3G system that really works is CDMA and this is all 3G stuff. The GSM guys are still trying to get their 3G to work right.
No one has to build new cell towers and base stations when the ones already there can transmit data at the necessary speeds.
The reason is simple: it eliminates the VERY expensive last mile connection for broadband that cable and DSL high-speed access needs. It's vastly cheaper to put up a single antenna for WiMax that covers a couple of thousand users instead of hardwiring that last mile connection to every home in the same area.
People say that South Korea, Japan, Sweden and Canada are ahead of us in broadband usage, but they're forgetting that 1) in the case of South Korea and Japan the population density is high enough that return on investment for broadband connections is quite high and 2) the Swedish and Canadian efforts are concentrated on their population centers only.
I expect initially WiMax antennas in the USA will be piggybacked on cellphone antennas now already in wide usage, with additional antennas to be put up in mountainous and rural areas.
I've got you beat. I live out in the middle of Mars and dial up with a 56K modem....and get 28.8 speeds!!!!
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