The Future of Uncapped Fixed Wireless

[Etienne2009]

I have been using Uncapped Wireless Internet for the past few years. I have a Mikrotik Router installed on my roof pointing to the mountain (not far away). My ISP never restricted me in any way and I got exactly what I paid for - even though it is slow. I started off with a 128kbit/s account and later I was upgraded to 256kbit/s. On my current setup I can download max up to 2.54Gb in 24 hours although my average speed is around 1.5gb in 24 hours.

I know that there are many other Wireless users who are now at crossroads with regard to future connectivity. My ISP is using IS based internet and I already experience the very severe shaping mentioned by other users. During the day my internet crawls along at around 96kbit/s - it was not like this before the uncapped explosion!

My Questions are fairly simple:
1) How are the wireless ISP's going to react to the huge change in the market?
2) What would a reasonable price structure look like in comparison to ADSL Uncapped?
I currently pay R285 / 128kbit/s
3) I have contacted the owner of my ISP and they are still deciding on future packages - have other Wireless ISP's already regrouped in response to the market shift?

Thanx

Etienne

 

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The demise of outdoor wireless ISPs in unlicensed bands is inevitable. There simply isn't enough spectrum to provide the capacity required, particularly if no capping is applied.

WiFi has a great future, in ever-decreasing hot spots, particularly indoors, but it was never really any good at wide-area coverage, except for the most desperate users, and with almost no-one on the network.