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Wireless Broadband!
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 3:11am |
 Coolness: 2749635 | Nextel debuts wireless broadband in North Carolina
By Wireless Watch Published Monday 19th April 2004 20:09 GMT US Cellco Nextel has launched a full scale mobile wireless broadband service for North Carolina's Research Triangle offering a 1.5 Mbps service, bursting to 3 Mbps, for prices ranging between $34.99 to $74.99 a month. These are cited downlink speeds whereas a typical uplink speeds will be around 375 kbps with burst rates of up to 750 kbps. Effectively Nextel has taken a trial, based around Flarion Technologies' Flash OFDM technology, a version of IEEE 802.20 mobile-fi, and extended it into a full service. The service will now be called Nextel Wireless Broadband, and it has a coverage area of 1,300 square miles extending to Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and other neighboring communities with a total of one million residents. The service has not had paying customers before but will now accept them, and began life being given away to local employees of Cisco, Nortel and IBM and others. Local marketing initiatives will now begin. Nextel's trial also bundles in multiple e-mail accounts, online disk storage and offers public, private and static IP addresses. The Flarion technology should allow customers to move around within the network and attach from an enabled PC with a PC card or wireless modem from virtually anywhere, just like using a mobile phone. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 10:34am |
 Coolness: 340385 | heh, and you need to be within 120 feet of their headquarters for it to work. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 11:37am |
| Coolness: 2749635 | it has a coverage area of 1,300 square miles
Can you read? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 1:10pm |
| Coolness: 340385 | i think the answer is obvious! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 1:30pm |
 Coolness: 60400 | pretty fucking awesome, but a bit on the expensive side. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 1:52pm |
| Coolness: 340385 | a bit??
$150/month is very expensive! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 2:37pm |
| Coolness: 60400 | $34.99-$74.99/month != $150/month
even after the currency conversion. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 2:40pm |
| Coolness: 60400 | besides, have you seen the prices some carriers charge for regular wireless access now?
telus charges around $110 a month for unlimited wireless access that is slower than a 56K dialup connection. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 2:52pm |
| Coolness: 2749635 | yah i think it's fairly cheap... i would pay for broadband wireless... 110$ is rediculous... and it's 50$ from fido for the speed of a 28.8 modem... really slow... i want to still get it though cause i can then use my computer from anywhere but at 28.8 fuck that... 15000.00 is much better... about 53x faster for about the same price... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 2:55pm |
| Coolness: 340385 | psh, 6400 baud for $110/month what a ripoff. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 2:57pm |
| Coolness: 60400 | actually, fido's network is the speed of a 56K modem.
check out this phone: [ www.fido.ca ] i've looked into it extensively. the phone costs $275 if you get into a 2 year contract. you get full featured web browsing (the phone doesn't support javascript, but they transmit updates to the phone and javascript support is coming in the near future). you also have access to aim/icq, with a full qwerty keyboard. you get a regular voice plan ($20-$30 a month) and you can get an unlimited data package for $20 a month. only downside is you can't use it as a modem for your laptop. i'm getting one in july/august when my contract expires with telus. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 2:59pm |
| Coolness: 60400 | they also have a terminal software which is pretty nifty. fido doesn't have it yet (t-mobile) does, but they plan to offer it in the future.
you also can access 3 POP email accounts, and it supports WAV, DOC, PDF and JPG/GIF/TIF/BMP attachments. you can save the WAVS and use them as ring tones :) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Tue Apr 20, 2004 @ 3:01pm |
| Coolness: 340385 | why would i want to castrate a mule for $150/month?
this deal seems really bogus. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Wed Apr 21, 2004 @ 11:17am |
 Coolness: 72155 | cell phones are a fricking racket
i cant believe i own one |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Wed Apr 21, 2004 @ 12:02pm |
| Coolness: 60400 | land lines are more of a racket.
i cancelled my service with bell. it was costing me more than my cell phone and i didn't have the portability. now i have a $20/m VoIP line from Primus. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Wed Apr 21, 2004 @ 3:04pm |
| Coolness: 72155 | i am kind of annoyed by the fact that i am tied to contract with telus..
meh - bad move on my part. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Wed Apr 21, 2004 @ 3:20pm |
| Coolness: 60400 | are you unhappy with telus?
i've been under contract with them for 2 years and i've had nothing but great service from themm. i've been with rogers and fido in the past and they both sucked. for my first year or so with telus, i was only making payments every 3-4 months. they disconnected my phone twice due to non-payment. and after all that, they call me and give me an extra 50 mins free a month because i was apparently a "valued customer". that said, i'll probably be going back to fido in july/august when my contract expires simply so i can get the hiptop phone. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lone_Star replied on Wed Apr 21, 2004 @ 8:02pm |
 Coolness: 153775 | That's quite expensive and the other disadvantage you have is that you can't hit anything when the internet chokes. Well... unless you want to run 1,300 KMs to hit a piece of plastic. |
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