MWEB WiMax trials progressing well
A total of eight WiMax base stations have been listed for their trial, and so far seven of the eight base stations are live.
These base stations are at N1 City, Foreshore and Plumstead in Cape Town and Boksburg, Sandton, Randburg and Soweto in Joburg. The only base station that is not live yet is Victory Park in Joburg, which MWEB hope will be operational soon.
MWEB said that it hasn’t initiated any signal tests in Joburg as yet because they have picked up a few interference issues affecting all base stations except Boksburg. This should hopefully be resolved by the end of this week.
So far, approximately 62 trialists in Cape Town have been connected. “We have some 81 installations lined up for JHB, which will commence as soon as the interference issue has been resolved,” MWEB said.
“At this stage it’s difficult to give a percentage breakdown of Home vs. Business customers, but we can confirm that we have a pretty even split in the trialists connected to the Foreshore and N1 City base stations in Cape Town,” MWEB pointed out.
MWEB will be monitoring range and signal from the base stations over the next few weeks to determine the upper limits of distance and signal strength from the base stations.
“At this stage however we can confirm that customers staying in Table View are able to pick up signal from the Media 24 WiMAX Base station (on the Cape Town foreshore) – which is essentially across Table Bay!” MWEB said.
MWEB has applied for spectrum from ICASA to provide commercial broadband services to consumers using WiMax as a last mile access technology.
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