Re:Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband
by darpa_escapee on Friday December 16, 2016 @08:03AM
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> However, WiMAX seems to have failed in the US, with Clearwire shutting down in March...
I played the WiMAX game in the US as a consumer. If you didn't have clear line of site with the tower, you got terrible speeds if you still had a connection.
Driving + WiMAX was a no go unless it was through an empty field (never got to try this one). Using WiMAX near a window and getting up for some coffee was a no go. Hell, being outside that pane of glass made a huge difference.
It was really bad for mobile.
> You can roll out fast broadband to large areas just by building a few towers to broadcast WiMAX.
I can see this working if customers had outdoor antennas installed.
I played the WiMAX game in the US as a consumer. If you didn't have clear line of site with the tower, you got terrible speeds if you still had a connection.
Driving + WiMAX was a no go unless it was through an empty field (never got to try this one). Using WiMAX near a window and getting up for some coffee was a no go. Hell, being outside that pane of glass made a huge difference.
It was really bad for mobile.
> You can roll out fast broadband to large areas just by building a few towers to broadcast WiMAX.
I can see this working if customers had outdoor antennas installed.