Mark et all, good read on Sprint and ION.
They are planning on MMDS two-way,very interesting read.
"Wireless is attractive because it's so simple," Robinson enthused. "The closest analogy is direct broadcast television or satellite broadcast TV. You put your antenna up and you've got it. It's that simple."
Robinson said that Sprint would deliver about 27 megabits per second (Mbps) downstream with a 3.5 Mbps return.
Using the MMDS spectrum, he said, adds another piece to Sprint's ION solution.
"We said from the beginning that there were several ways that we could do this," he said.
Those included the preferred digital subscriber line (DSL) network, fixed wireless and even broadband cable modems.
"What we envisioned was a hybrid of access methods, depending on what made sense for us in a certain geographic area," he said.
Cost savings occur, he noted, when the local regional bell operating company (RBOC) is shut out.
"We don't have to lease local loops from the RBOCs," he pointed out.
Telephone and data signals are sent to a house or business-mounted transceiver antenna pointed in the tower's direction.
"You broadcast that pipe out and it receives it back in and you're into the network and never have to go through the copper," he said.
PCTV, he emphasized, offers some attractive big city markets and is already offering high-speed service in Phoenix and Detroit.
"The average city we could provision with two towers. In Chicago, maybe you have to go to four to get 80% of the population." he said.
(April 19, 1999)
cableworld.com
Hiram
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