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April 28, 2004

Sydney Might Have 100 Mbps Wireless Broadband Coverage

By Glenn Fleishman

Sydney, Australia, WISP Unwired plans 50 by 60 kilometer coverage at 100 Mbps for 95 percent of Sydney: The company is signing up resellers and will install 63 towers at a cost of Aus$33 million by July. This all sounds somewhat unrealistic except that the firm has apparently already raised a fair amount of money and has its plans quite advanced. (Perhaps it’s a fluke of the Australian market, but I don’t understand how a firm raised money without a plan just by using a shell listed company to avoid the IPO process.)

The article muddles terminology enormously, which isn’t unusual when new technologies appear. The journalist writes, Unwired’s 802.16 standard-compliant Ultra Wideband (WiMax) network… Ultrawideband (UWB) is a short-range, high-speed technology. 802.16a is the standard underlying WiMax which has no final spec yet nor a certification program in place.

The last graf is somewhat mystifying: It has been reported that Intel is involved in the WiMax Forum certification group, an international 802.16 fixed broadband wireless access standard lobby group. Intel has not been hiding its interest, and WiMax may lobby but it’s mostly about certification and education, from what we can tell so far.

Posted by Glennf at April 28, 2004 10:40 PM

Categories: Broadband Wireless, International

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