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...betrayed. Earlier this year, Barcelona, capital of the Spanish province, hosted the 3GSM World Congress, the world's biggest annual cellular conference. During his keynote address, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin implored his colleagues to improve cellular networks' ability to provide rapid and easy Internet access, otherwise a new wireless technology called WiMAX could take over. WiMAX doesn't require phone handsets or cellular networks. It can deliver fast Net connections over long distances directly to computers or handheld devices. "If we don't build our broadband networks we will have this opportunity taken away from us," Sarin warned...
Catalonia's announcement raised a series of pressing questions. Are governments or businesses the best entities to build wide-area wireless broadband networks? And what technology should those networks employ? Funded by citizens' tax dollars, governments generally look after roads, schools and defense. But telecoms? Haven't most governments been privatizing their fixed-line phone networks over the past 25 years? Why jump back into the same business? Wouldn't state-backed initiatives undermine free-market efforts to build networks and offer wireless services...
Coffee is far from Rwanda's only success. Its roads are some of the best in Africa, and the entire country will be wireless by the end of the year. Rwanda is also clean, thanks to a ban on plastic bags since 2005 and a mandatory national "tidy up" one afternoon each month, in which even government ministers clean the streets. Partly as a result, and partly because of careful rain-forest management and a mountain gorilla baby boom, Rwanda is also a growing eco-tourism destination. The government says the economy as a whole will grow 6.5% this year...
Thomas added that the free network’s speed—which would depend on location, weather, the number of users, and the users’ online activities—could vary between one and 54 megabytes. In comparison, University high-speed wireless internet usually runs consistently at 54 megabytes per second. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, the Sept. 19 news article "Surfing Around the Square" incorrectly stated the speed of on-campus networks and the free wireless network in Cambridge. On-campus networks run as fast as 54 megabits per second--not 54 megabytes per second--while the wireless network is expected to be at least 1 megabit per second...