http://www.digitoday.fi/showPage.php?page_id=12&news_id=45682

It remains to be seen whether Saunalahti, the selfelected primary contender for the license that now went to Digita, is still going to offer its mobile broadband product as a MNVO at the promised 20 euros a month.

The coverage maps in the article are calculated with antennas at 5 meters and 1,5 meters. The article notes, that in the first phase almost all subscribers will have to place their antennas at 5 m, so I guess mobility is out of the question. Downlink speeds will be up to 1,3 Mbps. There is also a list of municipalities to be covered in the first two phases.

http://www.digitoday.fi/showPage.php?page_id=12&news_id=45650

I live in the Czech Republic and I read in the paper yesterday that T-Mobile will be offering some kind of wireless “broadband”. As opposed to Eurotel, the biggest T-Mobile’s competitor, they won’t roll it out using CDMA, but I guess using the stuff made by Flairon. They should be offering it in a few cities during the summer holidays. I tried Eurotel’s CDMA and it quite sucks, with downstream speeds around 200Kb/s. I was an intern in Southern California and my apartment had a DSL, cheaper then what I pay here for GPRS and was like ten times faster. When you don’t live in a bigger town, chances of getting a decent broadband connection are slim. I am a software entrepreneur and can’t live without it, though :-).