chicagotribune.com— WiMax has the muscle to compete against the high-speed, land-based home Web connections provided by AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp.
Jan 3, 2009View in Crawl 4
Chi Town doesn't have WiMax? I live in a city of less than 100,000 in Northeastern Canada and I've had Wimax for well over a year now. For $5 more a month I'm practically on the network by myself and I get "actual" download speeds nearly twice as fast as my old, faster DSL line.
I must be one of the few people to live in an area where WiMax has been "coming next month" for almost 2 years, various delays due to "technical" and "security" issues continue.
"here in chi-town we have a monopolistic state / city (king) and total corporate control with at&t and comcast."There, I fixed that for you.
exactly, no way will land based internet ever be overcome by some horribly high latency city-wide based internet. Sure, it seems nice, until you realize you can never get VOIP, most games and a lot of other high value internet based things out of it
wimax will be available thru telecom phone services a very reasonable price they have no credit check or monthly contracts when its live i believe it will be for the wimax phone 30 dollars a month unlimited internet and phone calls the nokia phone witch i have held and used u can google shop wimax phone its a slider and touch screen with video chat capable very cool stuff
ryan_kwJan 4, 2009
Chi Town doesn't have WiMax? I live in a city of less than 100,000 in Northeastern Canada and I've had Wimax for well over a year now. For $5 more a month I'm practically on the network by myself and I get "actual" download speeds nearly twice as fast as my old, faster DSL line.
klownerJan 4, 2009
I must be one of the few people to live in an area where WiMax has been "coming next month" for almost 2 years, various delays due to "technical" and "security" issues continue.
brassbudJan 5, 2009
"here in chi-town we have a monopolistic state / city (king) and total corporate control with at&t and comcast."There, I fixed that for you.
wasdftwJan 5, 2009
exactly, no way will land based internet ever be overcome by some horribly high latency city-wide based internet. Sure, it seems nice, until you realize you can never get VOIP, most games and a lot of other high value internet based things out of it
Closed AccountJan 5, 2009
Love how you were modded down by some coward who couldn't even come up with a retort.
darkamster07Jan 5, 2009
im lucky enough to have RCN in chicago, and any further instanet competition is a plus for chicago IMO
tweekerzsJan 6, 2009
wimax will be available thru telecom phone services a very reasonable price they have no credit check or monthly contracts when its live i believe it will be for the wimax phone 30 dollars a month unlimited internet and phone calls the nokia phone witch i have held and used u can google shop wimax phone its a slider and touch screen with video chat capable very cool stuff