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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Nextel debuts wireless broadband in North Carolina
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Nextel debuts wireless broadband in North Carolina
By Wireless Watch (peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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.
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