Canadian WiMax tests show teething troubles
October 28th, 2007 Posted in Technology
Engineers testing a new WiMAX service southern Ontario are getting conflicting results as they experiment with gear from Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola.
“Different equipment is giving us different performance,” said Joe Boutros, president of Mipps Inc., which holds licences in Hamilton and Toronto, where tests have been going on for several months.
With early reports talking about WiMAX broadcast distances of many times greater than what is being discussed in this story, one hopes that these limitations will be quickly overcome. Steve