WiMax will not be the wireless broadband saviour for the digital have-nots, according to CI-Net Managing Director Graham McLean.
The ISP has recently expanded its RedKite WiMax service but at £3000 per year, it is targeted at businesses which require a stable back up option to fixed line connections. It has been operational for four years [...]
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Profile: RedKite’s Graham McLean on why WiMax holds little hope for rural ‘not-spots’
Profile: Felix Geyr, Be Broadband’s managing director, to gamble on gamers
Felix Geyr is to begin sharpening Be Broadband’s focus this spring on the core interests for which he believes people come to the LLU provider.
In a bid to spread its service vertically, so it does not just provide access but is involved in content provision, he is planning to provide a gaming service and is [...]
Wi-Max carrot should boost fibre roll out, innovation group insists
The National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (Nesta) is calling on the Government to think more creatively about how it could encourage fibre to be rolled out by rewarding companies with digital radio spectrum for Wi-Max use.
Whilst media coverage of a report its published earlier this week centred on a ‘fibre for spectrum’ [...]
Analysys Mason: Forget Wi-Max
Mobile broadband is set to go from strength to strength but you can pretty much write off Wi-Max networks, according to the latest research from telecommunications researchers at Analysys Mason.
Its latest report predicts that mobile broadband use will grow rapidly along the same lines as we see today with subscribers using a mixture of 3G [...]
WiMax – don’t hold your breath
There’s a lot of talk of WiMax currently, largely originating from company PR departments hoping to recover their development costs or sell lots of WiMax chips and devices. But what does it offer to the average broadband user ?
To be honest, not a lot right now. You may have heard that WiMax has a range [...]
