Just as an aside, on the higher end WinStar offers an OC-3 (155 MBPS) signal over line-of-sight wireless with a 2 mile range. They establish (rather, have established) hub sites in major cities and own good.net's dark fiber backbone. They avoid the costs of digging up the street and dealing with the local COs and pass the savings on. This way they can provide unified (or converged) voice, video, and data services to commercial clients and residential buildings at a very reasonable cost. One reason they can provide this service is because they own the rights to use a portion of the radio spectrum. In my opinion, WinStar's service offering is far more significant than Gain's.
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Just as an aside, on the higher end WinStar offers an OC-3 (155 MBPS) signal over line-of-sight wireless with a 2 mile range. They establish (rather, have established) hub sites in major cities and own good.net's dark fiber backbone. They avoid the costs of digging up the street and dealing with the local COs and pass the savings on. This way they can provide unified (or converged) voice, video, and data services to commercial clients and residential buildings at a very reasonable cost. One reason they can provide this service is because they own the rights to use a portion of the radio spectrum.
In my opinion, WinStar's service offering is far more significant than Gain's.
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