[TriLUG] Wireless Broadband

[Aaron Bockover]

Kill-all-the-telcos!!
It'll be great to see it when it does come though. 

Best,
Aaron

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 00:21 -0400, Jon Carnes wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 21:06, Aaron Bockover wrote:
> > Okay, so Raleigh just isn't full of open WiFi hot-spots, and it'd really
> > be nice to have wireless broadband. Is anyone subscribed to such a
> > service? Does one really even exist yet in this area?
> > 
> > I tried signing up for the free Nextel Wireless Broadband trial last
> > year, but didn't get accepted. It's been a year, the trial is over, and
> > it doesn't look like they've rolled the service out publicly.
> > 
> > Verizon has wireless broadband, but Raleigh isn't one of its supported
> > cities.
> > 
> > Are we just that insignificant? I would really hate to have to start
> > using my cellphone for dial-up... that's just asinine! 
> > 
> > Best,
> > Aaron
> > 
> There are a couple of folks *trying* to do wireless in Raleigh.
> Unfortunately Bell owns all the reserved spectrum here and has just been
> sitting on it.  The few companies doing the Public spectrum are stuck
> because no one will fund them with the specter of Bell looming over them
> (and doing nothing)...
> 
> That's why places like Johnson County have Wireless DSL and Raleigh
> doesn't.
> 
> It will get here though. My company is currently partnering (or about to
> partner) with a big provider that is East of here. If that is successful
> then we will be bringing them into Fuquay and Apex as an alternate
> provider for our VoIP offering.
> 
> Jon Carnes
> FeatureTel
>  
>