Will Buckley be wired via wireless soon.....?
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The Most Unwired Town in America
Nikhil Hutheesing, 03.25.02, Forbes ASAP
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Are the promised wonders of third-generation wireless for real? Yep, and here's the living proof.
Cruising down Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls, S.D., in a jeep, Shane Hampton flips open his Toshiba Portege, logs on to Yahoo and starts downloading a Britney Spears music video at 112 kilobits per second--twice as fast as a standard dial-up connection. Hampton, 34, vice president of field sales for Seattle, Wash.-based Monet Mobile Networks, is showing off the third-generation (3G) wireless network his company launched here in October--the first such network to go live in this country. "It doesn't get better than this," says Hampton. "What you are seeing here is the future of wireless."
A lot of locals agree. Already 300 Sioux Falls residents have signed up for Monet's $50-per-month, third-generation wireless service plan. Using 12 base stations located throughout this former prairie settlement, Monet's broadband wireless service is accessible to some 100,000 people living within 30 square miles. Monet is now deploying another 3G network in the nearby Fargo-Moorhead region. Monet's network offers peak speeds of 144kbps, the minimum required to qualify as a 3G network.
forbes.com
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