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IEEE brings white space Internet one step closer, we almost felt a twinge
- scythe 15y agoI'm certainly not the only one who read that and thought "y'know, it'd be nice to set that up in the first world". If you can provide 22 Mbps connections to a large area wirelessly, you have a business model, right? Plus, it requires laying/leasing almost no cable.
- wmf 15y agoYou have a pretty marginal business model, because each customer gets less than 1 Mbps and thus is not willing to pay very much. And as cheap as the towers are, they're still expensive enough to eat up your revenue.
- scythe 15y ago>because each customer gets less than 1 Mbps I don't follow? Each tower can presumably broadcast multiple access points.
- wmf 15y agoPress releases always quote the total sector bandwidth, and at long range there tend to be a lot of customers per sector. Due to the narrow channels and good propagation, 700 MHz white spaces may end up being worse than 2.4 GHz.