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Information Technology News WiMIN or WiMAX: Stacks of WiMAX facts?
Information Technology News WiMIN or WiMAX: Stacks of WiMAX facts? | WiMIN or WiMAX: Stacks of WiMAX facts? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 27 March 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 4 In an accusation from Rob Moore that Internode are “still ‘in trials’ with Airspan WiMAX, so it’s hardly ‘proven’.”, Hackett noted that: Featured Whitepaper
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Rob Moore then said that: “Out of Airspan’s two WiMAX customers in Australia, 50% say it’s junk and 50% are still in trials.” Hackett responded that: “On the contrary, I'm sure Airspan have other customers in Australia. Its the prerogative of those customers to be named, at their option, not the prerogative of Airspan. And I say again - Internode is in full production deployment, not in trial. Your [Rob Moore’s] assertions that we are in trial are false.” Rob Moore then tried to suggest that Hackett would potentially be at next year’s WiMAX conference with a similar story to Buzz Broadband. Hackett immediately refuted that by saying: “Zero chance of that.” Hackett then continued for several paragraphs, noting that: “We have been designing, developing, deploying, and supporting regional wireless broadband systems since 1999. We have a substantial team involved in R&D;, trial, deployment, and support; We did our homework on engineering and business modeling before we deployed, and the results are coming in according to our models.” “We are hugely committed to regional broadband services, its something we (and I in particular) really care about, and care to have us do.” “I *will* say that the cost models in regional broadband are damn hard to get right, and in particular I think that its a precarious business to be in unless you are able to deploy regional broadband as an adjunct to a successful national metropolitan broadband business such as the one operated by Internode.” “Doing it in that way (additive to an existing national customer base) means that the incremental costs to support, service, bill and collect funds for services are able to leverage the very large scale of that national business.” “This allows the regional broadband networks themselves to operate as efficiently as possible in cost terms - and because of the sheer enormity of the terrain, and the relatively low customer densities, you have to be extremely cost efficient to make things work. We are - and they do.” “That doesn't mean we cut corners in engineering terms, however - our customer-side installations cost us about $1200 (parts and labour) to site survey, install, verify, test, and configure. But that investment pays off - it means the service is (in almost all cases) rock solid, fast, and reliable.” To read Hackett’s thoughts on why OPEL, the Optus and Elders joint-venture, has not yet rolled out a WiMAX network in Australia, in response to further questions from Rob Moore, please read onto page 4. |
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