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Fido Launches New Broadband Wireless Access

Posted by timothy on from the pant-pant dept.

bug-eyed monster writes "Fido is launching a new wireless internet service with 'Download at speeds of up to 2.2 Mbps,' in Richmond BC and Cumberland ON. It uses a special modem that plugs into a regular network card. The technology providers' websites, Microcell and Inukshuk, inform us that the service uses Multipoint Communications Systems (radio-based) in the 2500 MHz range. The modem can be used anywhere within Richmond and 'up to 2.5km away from any network base station' (no idea if it can also run on batteries). Of course, this is all torture for me since I live next-door in Vancouver, just out of reach of the network."

6 of 209 comments (clear)

  1. Inukshuk's Logo? by FractusMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Now The People Will Know We Were Here."

  2. Torture by agildehaus · · Score: 1, Funny

    This tortures me and I live in Saint Louis, Missouri.

    1. Re:Torture by mrmorden · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hah!

      I never thought I would feel so lucky to be moving back to Richmond in two weeks!

  3. Re:When you say Fido by Fortyseven · · Score: 2, Funny

    Prior to the internet's mainstream popularity, you mean. ;)

    But yeah, that was the first thing I thought of. Visions of free user-supported wireless internet from one side of the globe to the other danced in my head. Email taking over a day to get anywhere...Quake matches taking a lifetime...almost like the ping from here to Mars.

    --
    BytesTemplar.com
  4. candian or U.S. Kilobits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Download at speeds of up to 2.2 Mbps

    isn't that around US56K? >:)

  5. Reminds me of the well known Vancouver joke.... by Hamster+Lover · · Score: 3, Funny

    What river separates China from India?

    The Fraser.

    Richmond/Delta, get it? Yeah, it's not the best joke and anyone from Vancouver has probably heard it a thousand times...

    Whooooosh...there's the sound of evaporating karma.