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Broadband fixed wireless auction: nil bids
News The government's latest attempt to persuade telecoms companies to buy a broadband fixed wireless licence has been running for two weeks -- and so far it has not attracted a single bid, ZDNet UK can reveal.
[October 26, 2001, 17:32]
Broadband fixed wireless beset with problems
News Broadband fixed wireless technology -- the platform the government hopes will fill the considerable gaps left by ADSL in its plans to wire the nation with high-speed Internet services -- is still beset with problems, it emerged on Thursday.
[April 27, 2001, 7:02]
Broadband fixed wireless auction flops
News The government's latest attempt to sell off the broadband fixed wireless licences has totally failed to get off the ground. For areas too remote or under-populated to be offered ADSL, broadband fixed wireless is thought to be the most economical...
[January 11, 2002, 17:25]
Performance of NLOS OFDM Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Systems With Concatenated FEC Coding
White Papers The challenge for new generation broadband fixed wireless access systems, typically operating in Non Line Of Sight (NLOS) conditions, lies in providing high data rate and reliable transmission. The considered channel coding consists of concatenated...
[April 11, 2007, 1:01]
BT plans trial for broadband fixed wireless bid
News BT is seriously considering bidding for a number of 28GHz broadband fixed wireless licences as a way of launching broadband services in rural areas. It hasn't received any bids yet, but BT's involvement could boost interest in the broadband fixed...
[November 7, 2001, 14:28]
Tele2 extends broadband fixed wireless service
News Tele2 is one of the first broadband fixed wireless services in the UK and has a tiny subscriber base of just 2,000 consumers. She is not convinced that broadband fixed wireless is going to be anything other than a niche player in the broadband market.
[June 6, 2001, 8:32]
Performance Analysis of MIMO NLOS OFDM Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Systems
White Papers This paper focuses on performance evaluation of a MIMO OFDM NLOS fixed wireless access system adopting Space Time Block Coding (STBC) as diversity scheme. The combination of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) techniques and Orthogonal Frequency...
[April 11, 2007, 1:01]
Intel WiMAX Connection 2250: The Path to the Mobile Internet - Establishing Leadership With Wireless Broadband
White Papers Many service providers are seeing initial success using WiMAX based on the 802.16-2004 standard for fixed and nomadic applications such as last-mile broadband. With the addition of mobile capabilities, 802.16e-2005 WiMAX networks will be able to...
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
Virgin Mobile promises wireless broadband
News Virgin Media also used its second-quarter results to reiterate its plans for a 50Mbps fixed broadband service, now expected to go live in the second half of this year. In its latest set of quarterly results, Virgin Mobile has revealed it will be...
[August 7, 2008, 16:41]
Fixed-line broadband will prevail - analyst
Talkback Wireless is usually cheaper and easier. Wireless is getting better, the bad ideas are failing and great ones are expanding. Mr Buddy brings up some interesting and valid points. The same one's I'd guess that were brought up in the early days of...
[June 17, 2004, 16:10]
First public demo of 'disruptive' wireless broadband
Talkback Why would I want 4Mb wireless bb when in theory I will be able to get 8Mb and 24Mb when ADSL2+ is rolled out? may be ok in the everglades, but as fixed line bb continues to roll out across the UK at faster speeds FWBA will not be able to compete.
[November 8, 2005, 10:55]
Fixed-line broadband will prevail - analyst
Talkback Mr Budde also said, "Budde maintains that wireless will never become an able competitor to the fixed line network, as he said it will never match the "reliability, quality and robustness" that a landline can offer.
[June 17, 2004, 14:06]
Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router review
Reviews You'll find more security options under the Advanced Wireless tab, including the ability to stipulate shared keys for WEP, which means that any client that connects must use the same WEP key. By default, the WRT54G is set to Mixed so that both...
[March 6, 2003, 12:42]
Wireless broadband ISP in a box bridges gaps
News Wireless equipment vendor Alvarion believes it has the answer to closing Britain's broadband divide -- a wireless ISP in a box. Rob Mortimer, Alvarion's UK sales director, said he hoped it would "kick-start wireless broadband Britain.
[May 2, 2003, 13:06]
Wireless rural broadband gets green light
News But BT, which is running four three-month trials of the technology, has warned that prices for wireless broadband access may be higher than for fixed-line broadband technologies such as ADSL. Such costs are unlikely to have a significant effect on...
[December 30, 2003, 12:35]
Wireless broadband licences to start at £100,000
News Companies who wish to offer wireless broadband services will be able to bid as little as £100,000 for a licence. One proposal under consideration is that one nationwide wireless broadband licence would be made available at 3.6GHz.
[January 28, 2003, 14:07]
Cautious reception for '£80m wireless broadband project'
News Reports last week claimed that BT, Intel and Radiant Networks are close to teaming up with six county councils to create the £80m network, which would use fixed wireless and Wi-Fi to bring broadband to areas where affordable high-speed Internet...
[April 15, 2003, 13:49]
A Review of Spectrum Requirements for Mobile WiMAX Equipment to Support Wireless Personal Broadband Services
White Papers Wireless Personal Broadband provides a new category of services that are enabled by the availability of affordable broadband connectivity at home, at work and on the go. This is in addition to the emergence of new delivery initiatives such as...
[April 22, 2009, 1:24]
BT trials wireless broadband service
News BT is testing a wireless broadband service that if launched commercially could help to bring high-speed Internet access to 100 percent of the UK population. BT's wireless broadband trial operates using the 5.8GHz band of the radio spectrum.
[December 16, 2003, 16:40]
Government urged to act on wireless broadband
News It identified the 28GHz band as suitable for broadband fixed wireless services, but after two failed auctions it has only managed to distribute 16 of the 42 licences available. Wireless is the key to giving everyone in Britain access to an...
[November 25, 2002, 15:54]
