more on Nextel debuts wireless broadband in North Carolina

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:09:02 -0400
From: Marvin Sirbu <sirbu () cmu edu>

To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>

The standard price schedule (before introductory discounts) is:

Service type            uplink  downlink (kbps) usage volume    price
Lite:           200     750             150MB           $44.99
Standard                200     750             unlimited               $59.99
Deluxe          200     1000            unlimited               $74.99
Platinum                375     1500            unlimited               $84.99

Only the Deluxe and Platinum services come with dynamic, routable IP 
addresses (necessary if you want to run a softphone or other server on your 
PC).  Static IP addresses are extra.

<http://www.nextelbroadband.com>


--On Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:09 PM -0400 Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:


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> Nextel debuts wireless broadband in North Carolina
> By Wireless Watch (peter () rethinkresearch biz)
> Published Monday 19th April 2004 20:09 GMT
>
> US Cellco Nextel has launched a full scale mobile wireless broadband
> service for North Carolina's Research Triangle offering a 1.5 Mbps
> service, bursting to 3 Mbps, for prices ranging between $34.99 to $74.99
> a month.
>
> These are cited downlink speeds whereas a typical uplink speeds will be
> around 375 kbps with burst rates of up to 750 kbps. Effectively Nextel
> has taken a trial, based around Flarion Technologies' Flash OFDM
> technology, a version of IEEE 802.20 mobile-fi, and extended it into a
> full service.
>
> The service will now be called Nextel Wireless Broadband, and it has a
> coverage area of 1,300 square miles extending to Raleigh, Durham, Chapel
> Hill and other neighboring communities with a total of one million
> residents. The service has not had paying customers before but will now
> accept them, and began life being given away to local employees of Cisco,
> Nortel and IBM and others. Local marketing initiatives will now begin.
>
> Nextel's trial also bundles in multiple e-mail accounts, online disk
> storage and offers public, private and static IP addresses. The Flarion
> technology should allow customers to move around within the network and
> attach from an enabled PC with a PC card or wireless modem from virtually
> anywhere, just like using a mobile phone.
>
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