[Cialug] OT: FCC to de-regulate DSL?

[Tom Poe]

n.d offered the following on 08/05/2005 02:23 PM:
> reliance on infrastructure is going to be the downfall of the bells. 
> just wait. it'll happen.
> 
> get over dsl and embrace new technologies. at least i don't have to deal 
> with this stuff the next 18 months. i just pray that there will be some 
> true progress made by then.
> 
> 
> btw, what is wimax?
> 
> 
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> 
>> "He who has the gold makes the rules..."
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 13:42, David Champion wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> "This sucks like nothing has sucked before." -- Butthead
>>>
>>> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/05/1345254&tid=215&tid=95&tid=230 
>>>
>>>
>>> 'cause we've all seen how monopolies make everything all happy and 
>>> good for the customers.
>>>
>>> -dc
>>>
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> 
http://www.thestandard.com/internetnews/000972.php
Alcatel, Intel team on WiMax, Linux
By Peter Sayer

French telecommunications equipment manufacturer Alcatel SA is 
collaborating with Intel Corp. on two network technology projects that 
could lower infrastructure costs for network operators, the companies 
announced Tuesday.

Alcatel and Intel have agreed to jointly develop WiMax broadband 
wireless access technology, and hope to bring products based on the 
"nomadic" version of WiMax to market in mid-2006, said Marc Rouanne, 
chief operating officer of Alcatel's mobile communications group, at a 
news conference on the sidelines of the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes.

Several versions of the WiMax standard, also known as IEEE802.16, are 
being defined. Alcatel already resells products from Alvarion Ltd. that 
meet Revision D of the standard, for fixed wireless access. Revision E, 
the focus of Alcatel's collaboration with Intel, concerns nomadic 
applications, in which the user will move to the coverage area of one 
base station, turn on their computer and stay there for a while, not 
roaming from one cell to another. A typical application might be a 
wireless Internet access hot spot.

The two companies have already worked together on WiMax technology for 
18 months, during which time they stabilized the standard, Rouanne said. 
Alcatel is aiming to bring the technology to market at a price somewhere 
between DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) fixed broadband and 3G 
(third-generation) mobile telecommunication systems.
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