Tim Higgins says southwestern Virginia is getting commercial broadband wireless service using Flarion’s Flash OFDM.
The 700MHz band is said to deliver superior in-building signals and/or goes 2-4 times further than either cellular or WiMax frequencies (at 2.5 GHz). This results in 50-75% less capital to build the same network. Aloha’s Tucson trial supports an average data rate of around 1.5 Mbit/s, using only 1.25 MHz of spectrum in the 700 Mhz band.
Citizens Wireless has started deployment of a wireless broadband network to cover Blacksburg, Christian
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