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Nextel Jumps into Wide-Area Wireless Broadband

Posted by simoniker on from the lots-of-bits dept.

Atryn writes "Nextel Communications appears to be entering the world of wireless wide-area broadband technology. A new site showed up today describing their market level trial of Flash OFDM technology. Using a PCMCIA Type II modem card in your laptop or a tethered modem, you can have speeds of 1.5 Mbps (bursting to 3 Mbps) downstream and 375 Kbps (bursting to 750 Kbps) upstream as described here. They also appear to be seeking seeking trial participants, who, when selected, will get the technology free of charge! Of course, you need to be in North Carolina."

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  1. I cannot believe this ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Andy is a Linux developer, as related by the bbc :)

    1. Re:I cannot believe this ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You stole my FP

    2. Re:I cannot believe this ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You sank my battleship

  2. It's 5:00 AM, and I'm hungry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What do I do, Slashdot? I'm tired of ramen noodles, even if they -are- Maruchan "spicy chicken".

  3. Re:Yes, I did. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ernst! The SA are not now, nor will they ever be the official German army!

  4. Let the BBC know... by Svet-Am · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *We* all know that the columnist is talking out of his ass. Please take the time to flood the BBC with comments about the article expressing your displeasure.

    If enough of us do it (and hell, why can't we if we can cause entire servers to DoS), we might be able to convince them to issue a retraction/apology about the story.

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    1. Re:Let the BBC know... by Svet-Am · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      How the HELL did this comment end up in the wrong thread??

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