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WiMax service hits Seattle |
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Written by Kory Mohr
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Tuesday, 17 May 2005 |
Yet another article that contradicts itself with the title "WiMax service hits Seattle" yet further down we see "Pre-WiMax gets a try-out in the rain." Oh, the horror! <grin>
An antenna plunked atop Seattle's Space Needle
will soon enable business-class, point-to-multipoint WiMax-class
services throughout the rainy city's dense urban core. The
provider of the service, Speakeasy, said last week that it is taking
business customer orders for wireless broadband services that range
from $500 per month for 3 Mbit/s services to $700 per month for 6
Mbit/s services with an annual contract. Commercial services are set to
go live in June.
Landmark remains the same
The WiMax
antenna is not altering the famous landmark in any way - it is
reportedly replacing an older antenna that was already sitting atop the
Needle. So nothing sacred is being newly violated. The
carrier indicated that Seattle is the first among several major cities
in which it will roll out its fixed wireless broadband service for
businesses. It is using Alvarion pre-WiMax base stations, as well as
Alvarion end-user hardware that is based on Intel's recently announced
standards-based 802.16-2004 WiMax CPE system-on-a-chip (SoC).
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