Canada’s Rogers Cable is planning to launch a new, 5 Mps Internet service in Ontario and New Brunswick. This new service will be in addition to the current offering with speeds up to 3Mbps (already faster than the DSL competitor) provided to existing Rogers Hi-Speed Internet customers. http://www.rogers.com/
Rogers Cable to Launch 5 Mbps Home Service
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about Cable. Here is what it replaced:
LMDS / MMDS served 1998–2000. What ultimately replaced it?
LMDS / MMDS fixed broadband over microwave: rooftop antennas linked to line-of-sight base stations in the 2 GHz (MMDS) or 28/31 GHz (LMDS) bands, but rain fade and line-of-sight limits capped reach. Its job passed to Cable — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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January 21From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.