PSA continues to monitor the state of affordable access to internet and cloud services, for both rural and urban areas. This from The Verge discusses the current incarnation of millimeter wave wireless connectivity. As with other wireless models, there’s issues of how many base stations are required, how to get quality signal into buildings and through weather such as rain and snow.
Rural areas would still be more expensive to service with this approach, because rural tends to be a synonym for “houses spread out”, and the feasibility of this model depends on reducing the number of base stations until the service is affordable. Presently hard to do in urban areas, and presumably then also even harder to do in rural areas.
OTOH, many would welcome an affordable and higher speed alternative to using 4G telecoms for internet access. This video from The Verge explains more, and there’s even more at this story link, and in the article below.
[gview file=”https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Super-high-speed-internet-delivered-over-the-air-isnt-as-crazy-as-it-sounds-The-Verge.pdf”]At a launch event in New York City today, Chaitanya “Chet” Kanojia, the founder of the now-deceased startup Aereo, launched an ambitious new wireless hub called Starry. Starry is supposed to offer gigabit internet to the home, but delivered over a wireless network rather than a traditional wired one.