Small cableco claims fastest US wireless data: up to 15 Mb/s
BendBroadband, a family-owned cable and broadband provider serving Bend, Ore., is claiming to have launched the nation’s fastest wireless data service, with speeds averaging between 6 and 8 megabits per second and reaching 15 Mb/s “under optimal conditions.”
The company is delivering those speeds with an HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access Plus) wireless broadband network that is upgradable to Long Term Evolution (LTE).
The company is supplying users with WiFi-enabled modems for home networks along with a USB device to access its network “virtually anywhere in Central Oregon.” It plans to launch a “feature-rich” residential telephony service next year.
“Until now, many rural Central Oregonians have had little or no access to broadband,” the company’s CEO, Amy Tykeson, said in a statement today. “We are proud to lead the nation with the first HSPA+ deployment with the country’s fastest wireless broadband service.”
December 17th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
This is impressive and I’m glad to see the small private service provider being the leader and innovator. The data rate is OK but why not use a technology that already has hundreds of millions of existing access ready devices? Altai Technology, represented by ABP Technology in the US, supplies metropolitan carrier grade WiFi equipment that delivers access service to your PC, PDA or IPhone with no special equipment. This technology has been depoyed in over 50 countries world wide. Go to youtube and access the abptech.com channel and watch a IPhone play video at speeds greater than the HSPA+ service.
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