US Cellco Nextel has launched a full scale mobile wireless broadband service for North Carolina"s Research Triangle offering a 1.5 Mbps service, bursting to 3 Mbps, for prices ranging between $34.99 to $74.99 a month.
These are cited downlink speeds whereas a typical uplink speeds will be around 375 kbps with burst rates of up to 750 kbps. Effectively Nextel has taken a trial, based around Flarion Technologies" Flash OFDM technology, a version of IEEE 802.20 mobile-fi, and extended it into a full service.
The service will now be called Nextel Wireless Broadband.