By Iain Thomson VNUNet.com
04/20/05 10:44 AM PT
Typical deployment speeds will be between 1 and 10 Mbps, explained Jonathon Pagget chief operating officer of wireless equipment manufacturer Airspan. But he added that spectrum allocation was critical to the WiMax market.
Spectrum Availability The availability of the right kind of spectrum could have serious implications for the roll out of services. Richardson said that governments were allocating large chunks of spectrum, but at relatively high frequencies, mainly 2.5 and 3.5 GHz.
This would mean the signal would have difficulty penetrating buildings and would lose strength more quickly. Worldwide the most common spectrum allocated will be between 3.4-6 GHz, but in the United States Richardson said there were moves afoot to allocate the 700 MHz spectrum to WiMax.