Forget about Wi-Fi VoIP, Vonage going WiMax

kamikaze-Tech writes "Being reported on the Vonage VoIP Forum in an article entitled Vonage, Wimax Provider Team Up it appears Vonage is partnering with TowerStream to allow you to make calls up to 30 miles away via WiMax. WiMax, another name for the 802.16 standard for wireless broadband, has a range of up to 30 miles and can deliver broadband at a theoretical maximum of 75 megabits per second, which is more than 20 times the speed of the fastest wired broadband available commercially. WiMax serves as a partial successor to the popular Wi-Fi wireless protocol, which works over far shorter distances, measured in feet rather than miles."

Comments

Re:feet, miles?

[Anonymous Coward]

Use meters for god sake.

perhaps you could measure metres with meters ?

or at least check an English dictionary

VoIP at 75Megabits?!?

[Locke2005]

I don't think even my wife can talk that fast!

How do i love WiVonage let me count the ways

[WillAffleckUW]

1. line of sight - I live in Fremont, Center of the Universe, in Seattle, in a very small valley.

2. last time I saw pricing it was totally out of my price scale.

3. are we so very sure that pumping that much in that spectra is safe? Why?

4. frickin laser beams on mutated sea bass!