Urban WiMax Providing Free London Service
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Urban WiMax has revealed £4.4m plans to launch a free WiMax service in London.
According to Urban WiMax this will be the most advanced service available in the capital to date. The free trial will run from April through to July, when a full paid service will be launched.
Around 250 central London businesses will be connected in the trial period and if this is successful the service will be rolled out to nine other cities in the UK.
Urban WiMax claims that its offer will be the UK’s first true WiMax service. It is based on the 802.16d standard kit and will cost only 50% to 70% of the price of BT’s SDSL prices at wholesale levels.
The 5.8GHz waveband is expected to deliver 10Mbit/s of symmetric bandwidth, CCTV through business and critical voice and video services. It will be available to customers within approximately 1.5km of the first Urban WiMax station in Westminster, central London.
The number of WiMax networks in the UK is expected to double by 2007.
