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Originally Posted by popper
i think its reasonable to assume that by 2010 WiMax will be widespread if the industry has anything to do with it and hence that last mile will be covered, thats one of the reasons why i advocate wireless as standard in future stb's etc.
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I think WiMax would need to come on quite considerably in the next 4 years for it to be used effectiveley for Broadband and Television, assuming they still use copper pairs for the telco side of things due to Bandwidth Limitations.
WiMax can currently be used for the ol' classic (up to) 100Mbs over 100 Miles, however again it is subject to distance limitations so if you actually live 100 Miles from the WiMax point you may only get 1mbs. And the WiMax Bandwidth is shared amonst a radio sector, so if there a lot of users in a paricular radio sector each will end up with a reduced bandwidth, so if there are 10 users each will only get 10Mb.
It needs to come a long quite a bit so it will be interesting to see how things go.
Ntl is possibly in a better position to offer this as they trialled Wireless Broadband a few years back, apparently it was pretty good but they decided not to take it forward.