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Broadband Wireless Internet Providers
Broadband Wireless Internet Providers
Broadband wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) refer to either the platform where the wireless broadband technology is carried, or to the operators of this service.
WISPs utilize networks that are built around wireless networking, like a cellular phone infrastructure. These are facilities interconnected by nodes that eliminate the use of wires. The nodes utilize electromagnetic waves for the transmission points to communicate or interact.
Previously, broadband wireless Internet providers found a niche in rural areas where cable and digital Internet lines are not available. The providers often share a point-to-point Internet access infrastructure mounted on an elevated site, ideally a radio or telecommunications transmitter. Those who subscribed to the wireless Internet service will have a receiving device like a dish in their surrounding to communicate with the source from the wireless Internet providers.
In the United States, leading mobile phone networks tie up with Internet service provides (ISPs) to deliver Broadband wireless Internet access services. They include Verizon EV-DO which offers speed from 300 to 500 kbps, backed up by a national access alternative; and AT&T which offers EDGE (twice as fast as dial-up, around 135 kbps) and HSDPA which boasts of 700 kbps data transfer.
Meantime, the online Broadband Wireless Exchange magazine has released a list of the Top 10 Wireless Internet Service Providers. They include Mobilepro Corporation, Clearwire Wireless Broadband, SpeedNet Services, Inc., Plateau Meganet internet, Midwest Wireless, Mesa Networks, CommSpeed, Ama TechTel Comms., Prairie Inet and Camvera Wireless.