Formus here in Dublin, Ireland are currently beta testing broadband wireless access and point-to-point microwave access.
It's looks really cool and it's a lot lot cheaper than getting fibre to your door (especially here in Ireland, looking at $30k-£35k a year for 512k line).
Only problem is if someone decides to stick a building or something in the line of sight to the base station your gonna loose bandwith. Even if it's a misty or foggy day bandwith drops.
They sent out engineers to my company and they got up on the roof and took some digital pictures and stuff, but it turned out that there was a few buildings in the line of sight so it was a non-starter for us.
It still looks promising even if it scares the telcos into reducing the cost of a fixed line.
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...that one of the NT guys who's suddenly gained an intrest in our Sun systems suggested this very thing a few months ago!!
Then again, it is the SEATTLE Times....
Formus here in Dublin, Ireland are currently beta testing broadband wireless access and point-to-point microwave access. It's looks really cool and it's a lot lot cheaper than getting fibre to your door (especially here in Ireland, looking at $30k-£35k a year for 512k line).
Only problem is if someone decides to stick a building or something in the line of sight to the base station your gonna loose bandwith. Even if it's a misty or foggy day bandwith drops.
They sent out engineers to my company and they got up on the roof and took some digital pictures and stuff, but it turned out that there was a few buildings in the line of sight so it was a non-starter for us.
It still looks promising even if it scares the telcos into reducing the cost of a fixed line.