WiMAX in the UK. Here's why it won't fly: "So though WiMAX has the potential to offer high speed broadband access to all, in the UK there's little spectrum and unlikely to be so for considerable time. Pipex and PCCW will launch services, but they'll be "private" networks and WiMAX for the masses is unlikely to happen"
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Be interesting to get Metranet's take on this.
But I've missed this in all the hype:
"WiMAX has no in-built interference protection. It will assume any other network it comes across is part of the same network and, if it isn't, the network is likely to die, resulting in horrendous data loss."
Ouch. So can a few misconfigured 802.11a radios really take out a 5.8GHz WiMax network?
Posted by: Dave Phelan | July 05, 2006 at 01:03 PM