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Replacing the Wired Infrastructure (#1079)
Posted: 4/10/2003; 11:20 AM by Terry Frazier
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Very encouraging announcement from the WiMAX group. With recent FCC decisions supporting monopoly broadcaster and telco privileges at the expense of consumer rights and technology advancements it's difficult to stay upbeat about the future of the Internet and connectivity in general. But this ComputerWorld article provides some hope in the form of technology developments and technical direction from major producers of wide-area wireless equipment for the 802.16 standard.

It looks like WiMAX could provide viable, affordable wide-area wireless backbone connectivity within a couple of years. Though the telco and cable monopolies will put everything they have into preventing, co-opting, or slowing the spread of this technology, it is our only real hope for getting to the affordable 2-way Internet connectivity we need.

The day I can dump my relationship with brain-damaged companies like BellSouth and Sprint and get all my connectivity through EarthLink will be a great day indeed. With luck the WiMAX stuff will get deployed before the FCC mandates let BellSouth toss EarthLink out of their copper network and I have to start paying triple prices for 1/3 the service.

Dropping MAN Pricing. Customer equipment for wireless broadband could drop to $30 in a few years with 802.16: Good insight on the WiMAX announcement by Intel, Nokia, Proxim, Alvarion, and others to form an interoperable standard around 802.16a. The interoperability reduces the cost of developing and proving proprietary extensions. Uses of 802.16a will include T-1 replacement and backhaul service to hot spots. [Wi-Fi Networking News]

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