What WiMAX Can Mean for Rural and Developing Regions July 5, 2007
Posted by Ari Zoldan in Analyses and Speculations.add a comment
Recent news of the potential deployment of WiMAX in Australia and Brazil reveals another, perhaps less-thought-of, area in which WiMAX can be influential: the availabilty of internet access in rural and developing regions. Areas with low-density populations and/or difficult terrain, weather conditions, or other natural factors can pose a huge obstacle to making internet access possible.
For this reason, WiMAX’s potential to provide access over much larger distances allows these regions to bypass the difficult, if not impossible, equipment installation process and connect to the internet from a wireless broadband site that may be located miles away. Therefore, normally underserved or “digitally neglected” areas may be able to find a new way to connect via WiMAX. In turn, enabling entire regions to gain internet access may provide untold opportunities for economic and regional development. It will be intriguing to follow these developments as WiMAX begins to be utilized by such regions.
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Ari Zoldan
Launch 3 Communications
