BellSouth Expands Fixed Wireless Coverage

BellSouth will launch its fixed wireless broadband service in five new cities in the third quarter of 2006. The service will be available in some select parts of Melbourne, Fla.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Greenville, Miss.; Charleston, S.C.; and Albany, Ga. The service will have a downstream speeds of up to 1.5Mbps. The system transmits signals between local radio towers and a small non-line-of-sight desktop subscriber modem and utilizes BellSouth licensed WCS 2.3GHz spectrum. Other cities where the service is available include Athens, Ga;Palatka, Fla.; New Orleans, La.; Gulfport, Miss.; and DeLand, Fla. In addition, BellSouth announced yesterday that it would begin lab trials of WiMAX next quarter using Alcatel’s Evolium® WiMAX solution.

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