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Seph83
Gone Insane
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join:2004-04-29
Blairsville, GA
 ·Windstream
| Re: About time I'll second that. I've heard that the one person per zip crap was what the FCC used for years, through the grapevine, but never really saw it in print. Knowing the FCC, that one person per zip probably means that even if one rich person who can afford a T1 or better, that it counts. I live in a very rural area, and I believe that neither ISPs nor the government care about the average man and woman here. My ISP, Alltel(about to officially be known as Windstream) have taken years to deploy ADSL in my area, and there is still a large hole, along a US Highway, where there are at least a few hundred prospective customers and businesses. All because some corporate jackass(es) who don't want to invest a few thousand dollars, that would be made back in less than six months. And it's not just Alltel either, about 15 miles away, in North Carolina, Verizon could care less about the people in the sticks too. A guy I know is stuck with 22k dial-up, in a place where the ground pedestals look like they were installed in the 60's, in ex-GTE territory, where VZ doesn't care. He has called requesting DSL a few times, and they told him that they have no plans at all for DSL in that area! It's not the most populated or wealthy area, that's a given, but there are enough people who would use DSL to make it worthwhile. Nothing but cheapskates and polichickens running the show... And the US may have the highest number of people with broadband in the world, but it's sure not the highest percent of people served!!
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|  AHomeBoy2000
join:2005-10-10
Roselle, IL
| WiMax for All- Ok, for Some! I've been saying this for a while now. If you live in a nice neighborhood or municipality, the odds are you can get SOME form of broadband (cabel or DSL). But a LARGE population of the US lives in small towns and rural areas. THe US and Telco/Cable need to get off their butts and make WiMax possible. I understand a company not wanting to invest tousands of dollars to run cabels to 4 houses per square mile. A single Wi-Max antena on a cell tower could serve tham all, and cheaply too! | |
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rawgerz
In Debt we trust
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join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA
·Verizon Online DSL
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2 edits | Re: WiMax for All- Ok, for Some! You obviously haven't read up on wireless. Wimax is nothing but hopes and dreams and nothing factual, just like powerline broadband. You can't change the fundamentals of wireless.. After all can You imagine Any cell phone tower that serves a whole town?
Wireless can only do so much, 802.11B/G AP's can only do a max of 50 clients or so. Canopy systems can handle as many as 100 clients. Canopy systems start at about 20 grand..
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$6000 tower, securing tower locations by buying/leasing land
Securing a backbone internet provider
Another thing is that EACH of those clients are going to have to have a equipment at their end.. and that's NOT a wireless NIC from wal-mart..
Besides all this, only 2.4/5.8GHz and 900Mhz are non licenced frequencies.. this means that something as simple as a cordless phone can cause enough noise to disrupt equipment in the area.
To make wireless Appealing to entrepreneurs the FCC needs to have a dedicated, licenced frequency to specialty WISP's so that they can work without noise. And with a training program, and even better some sort of grant to start them off.
Wireless is NOT a cheap way of doing things, which is what they ARE looking for.. nothing will beat a landline fiber optic system
Either the FCC needs to establish a company to provide BB to rual areas and have it funded by something such as local taxes, or Force telco's to wire them.
All and all this is a huge mess that's gone to shit creek
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