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I did talk to the company and the service is ONLY offered by them in the Wenatchee Valley. There are no partnerships with other companies.
Since we travel a lot having this service on a national or regional basis would be real helpful in areas of poor connectivity like California and Arizona.
Does anybody know if any national or west-based companies are going to be rolling out a similar service based on this technology??
I did talk to the company and the service is ONLY offered by them in the Wenatchee Valley. There are no partnerships with other companies.
Since we travel a lot having this service on a national or regional basis would be real helpful in areas of poor connectivity like California and Arizona.
Does anybody know if any national or west-based companies are going to be rolling out a similar service based on this technology??
Not 100% sure, but this seems like a line of site based technology, so it's not really mobile.
About the best deal out there for fast, mobile internet is Millenicom
The Hotspot plan is on Verizon, and the iPad Plans are on T-Mobile.
It is line of sight. But we really do not care about mobile. It is more about being stationary between mobile moves!!
We tend to spend at least three weeks to two months in a give locale. So it would be pretty useful for us while we are stationary. Lots of RV'ers have satellite dishes that they just re-aim at the new location. This would work pretty much in the same way.
We are aware of Millenicom for mobile it is a great service. However, 40mbps and a 250 gig data cap is enough to make me aim my antenna every couple of weeks.
Given all the places we have been with lousy internet in California and Arizona this would be a great business for those communities.
"wireless internet access" I assume this must be via the cellphone repeater towers in that valley.
Thus we are discussing cellphone technology and bandwidth. Since it would be using cellphone repeaters, it would be subject to cellphone data limits. And it would only be available in the areas where those towers reach.
It would not be 'national', and would never apply in areas of poor connectivity.
"wireless internet access" I assume this must be via the cellphone repeater towers in that valley.
It's some type of Fixed Wireless, not Cellular. It's closer to a radio signal and generally requires a direct line of site to the tower, and a small dish.
It's some type of Fixed Wireless, not Cellular. It's closer to a radio signal and generally requires a direct line of site to the tower, and a small dish.
Your correct. Not a dish a very small antenna, but must be line of site,
It's some type of Fixed Wireless, not Cellular. It's closer to a radio signal and generally requires a direct line of site to the tower, and a small dish.
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Your correct. Not a dish a very small antenna, but must be line of site,
Thank you.
If it is not related to cellphone repeater towers; then is their bandwidth caps like cellphones have?
Here is how one vendor describes the network: FAQs - SKYBEAM
I did not know that HBO was ever separate from cable.
I tend to think of cable companies as being urban. They can only make a profit when homes are packed in close proximity to one another. When there are miles between homes, the expense of infrastructure is far to high. The majority of our nation is rural, so most of the nation will never see cable.
I did not know that HBO was ever separate from cable.
I tend to think of cable companies as being urban. They can only make a profit when homes are packed in close proximity to one another. When there are miles between homes, the expense of infrastructure is far to high. The majority of our nation is rural, so most of the nation will never see cable.
I wonder if the same applies to WiMAX.
Yes, there was life before cable TV (and cellphones)
HBO started in 1972 as a very small local cable operation, then expand to microwave (like WiMAX), then direct-to-home satellite TV only(using huge 9' backyard dishes), then cable as we know it today.
Most current WiMAX systems for Internet started serving rural areas that could not get cable or DSL. The one I am most familiar with started about 10 years ago in the plains east of Denver. They have grown to serve rural areas nationwide ( in addition to expanding into the suburbs of metro areas like Denver). It is an excellent alternative for those rural areas that may never see cable, and satellite or cellular Internet is unacceptable.
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