Mark Addinall
The charges for a one way link at here:
About $500 for a one way link plus $450 if you don't feel installing yourself.
Besides if he's within CDMA mobile phone range he'll get 100kbit CDMA1X and he's likely to get 1xEV-DO at 500kbits. He'll be able to take hos notebook to the cafe to boot.
WiMAX is starting to roll out. In another 8 years WiMAX (IEEE 802.16) will have 1 billion broadband wireless subsribers with integrated high reliability VOiP telophony. WiMAX will render all the silliness about country services irrelevent within 2 years. It'll probably render Telstra completely irrelevent. You just pop down a bunch of WiMAX towers and they use smart antena technolgy not only to beam and receive with a search light beam of low power devices but link up with each other to form a network all without cables.
We already have an idea of what this can do in Sydney where Unwired has captured 17% of the broadband market (even where ADSL is available) using a pre WiMAX technology called natini. Iburst is also doing business.
Could 'Telstra' bring down Government 3945Mark Addinall Sure but you get a profesionaly installed 1 way link including hardware and dish for under $980 dollars. With subscritptions starting at $49-month for a 200Mb limit and $79-month...
Intel is behined WiMAX and they are determined to get 1 billion customers. It has Nokia quaking in its boots. You'll see it shiping standard in $900 notebooks for $100 or less in 3 years.
